einsteinium
noun/aɪnˈstaɪni.əm/US
Etymology
From Einstein + -ium. Named after Albert Einstein.
- borrowed from Einstein
Definitions
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99: a soft, silvery, paramagnetic metal.
- Einsteinium, the 99th element of the periodic table, was discovered in the fallout of the first hydrogen bomb, detonated by the United States in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for einsteinium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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