californium

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
23
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌkælɪˈfɔɹniəm/
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/ˌkælɪˈfɔɹniəm/ · /ˌkælɪˈfɔːniəm/

Definition of californium

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A strongly radioactive and highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cf) with an atomic number of 98.

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Etymology

From California + -ium. The element was first synthesized at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), thus named after the university and the U.S. state of California.

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