virginium
English
Etymology
Virginia + -ium (after the US state), proposed in 1930 by Fred Allison, whose claim to have discovered the element was later disproved.
Noun
virginium (uncountable)
- (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for francium.
- 2014, Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side (page 328)
- Because he had found six minima for every salt of virginium—VaCl, VaNO3, Va2SO4, and VaOH—he asserted that virginium consisted of a mixture of six stable isotopes. Allison also found virginium present in other minerals […]
- 2014, Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side (page 328)
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