Unnilquadium (Noun)
Meaning
A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- The team of scientists successfully synthesized the highly radioactive element unnilquadium in their laboratory.
- After years of trying, the researchers were able to isolate a few atoms of unnilquadium, but it was short-lived.
- Scientists have long been interested in studying the properties of unnilquadium and its potential applications.
- Due to its extremely short half-life, it is extremely challenging to conduct experiments with unnilquadium.
- In order to produce a few atoms of unnilquadium, a team of physicists bombarded a sample of plutonium-239 with carbon-12 ions.