sequanium

English

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.

Noun

sequanium (uncountable)

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