californium

From California +‎ -ium. The element was first synthesized at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), thus named after the university and the U.S. state of California.

• enPR: kălĭfôr'nēəm
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkælɪˈfɔɹniəm/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkælɪˈfɔːniəm/

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californium (uncountable)

1. A strongly radioactive and highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cf) with an atomic number of 98.

• californium-252
• californium oxide
• californium oxychloride
• californium trichloride

• californate
• California
• Californian
• californite

Other brutally expensive material:

• endohedral fullerene

Borrowed from English californium, which is in turn from California.

• IPA^(key): /kalifɒːnjɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm

californium n (singular definite californiummet, not used in plural form)

1. (chemistry) californium

• “californium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English californium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.liˈfɔr.ni.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧li‧for‧ni‧um

californium n (uncountable)

1. californium [from 1950]

• Californië

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.fɔʁ.njɔm/

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californium m (uncountable)

1. californium

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈfor.ni.um/, [kälʲɪˈfɔrniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈfor.ni.um/, [käliˈfɔrnium]

californium n (genitive californiī); second declension

1. californium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Borrowed from English californium.

• IPA^(key): /kalɪˈfoːrnɪɵm/, [kal̪ɪˈfoːɳɪɵm]

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californium n

1. californium

• californium in Svensk ordbok (SO)