Roentgenate

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Noun
  1. 1
    A salt or derivative of roentgenic acid, similar in structure or composition to a gold salt due to the placement of roentgenium (Rg, element 111) in the periodic table. uncountable

Etymology

From German Röntgen (“Roentgen”) (the surname of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays) + the chemical suffix -ate.

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