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Virginium

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rejected name for francium. obsolete, uncountable

    "Because he had found six minima for every salt of virginium—VaCl, VaNO3, Va2SO4, and VaOH—he asserted that virginium consisted of a mixture of six stable isotopes. Allison also found virginium present in other minerals […]"

Etymology

From Virginia (US state) + -ium, proposed in 1930 by Fred Allison, whose claim to have discovered the element was later disproven.

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