balonium en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /bəˈloʊ.ni.əm/ (General-American)
- /bəˈləʊ.ni.əm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From baloney + -ium. See baloney (“nonsense”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) A fictional chemical element.
The data in Table 7.7 were taken for the highly radioactive element balonium-245.
2004, Mark T. Holtzapple, W. Dan Reece, Concepts in Engineering:Suppose that we have a Geiger counter and we are able to make measurements, during a ten hour period, of the balonium sample.
1993, American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education:I assumed starship fuel (antimatter or balonium) could be produced from electricity with perfect conversion, so it cost exactly what electricity did — good enough for the one-digit-or-so accuracy needed.
1990, Analog science fact, science fiction: Volume 110:
wikipedia: List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic particles