illinium
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of illinium
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Dr. Hopkins of Illinois had isolated a new chemical element, No. 61 in Mendeleev's table, and named it Illinium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, the only element so far revealed by a U. S. chemist, was named Illinium.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The light of the sun, or any light, for that matter, was concentrated through the lens onto a series of photo-electric cells, composed of an alloy of selenium and the far more delicate element, illinium.
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