radium

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Definition

  1. noun an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores

Etymology

Borrowed from French radium, from rad(ioactif) (“radioactive”) + -ium (suffix used to form the names of metallic elements).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Ra, atomic number 88

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