illinium

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English

Etymology

Illinois +‎ -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.

Noun

illinium (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A rejected name for promethium.
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