illinium en · NOUN
Etymology
From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.
Meanings
- (obsolete, uncountable) A rejected name for promethium.
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.