nihonium
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nihonium
Named in 2016 ; after Nihon ( def. ) + -ium ( def. )
Example Sentences
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When nihonium was officially added to the periodic table, in 2016, Crown Prince Naruhito was deeply moved: at a special ceremony, he reminisced about copying the periodic table by hand as a boy.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019
Japan discovered its first element, nihonium, No. 113, in 2004, and Chapman reports that Japanese children read mangas dramatizing the work of the country’s top nuclear physicist, Kosuke Morita.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019
We mentioned that nihonium has a half-life of about 20 seconds.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2016
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