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From Alabama + -ine, after a discredited claim of discovery by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
alabamine
Today it means: Former name for the chemical element astatine. Full definition →
Today it means: Former name for the chemical element astatine. Full definition →
From Alabama + -ine, after a discredited claim of discovery by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.