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neptunium

noun
/nɛpˈtjuːniəm/

Etymology

From Neptune + -ium, after the planet. The previous element is uranium, named after the previous planet: Uranus.

  1. derived from *nebʰ-✻
  2. derived from Neptūnus
  3. derived from Neptune
  4. suffixed as neptunium — “Neptune + ium”

Definitions

  1. The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 93 and symbol Np.

The neighborhood

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