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sequanium

The English word “sequanium” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. An early name for the element neptunium, based on a discredited claim of discovery.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Sequana (“the river Seine”) + -ium. Horia Hulubei, who thought he had discovered element 93, worked near the river at that time.

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