kurchatovium

British

/ ˌkɜːtʃəˈtəʊvɪəm /

noun

another name for rutherfordium, esp as used in the former Soviet Union

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of kurchatovium

C20: from Russian, named after I. V. Kurchatov (1903–60), Soviet physicist

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023