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From Meitner + -ium, after Lise Meitner, after whom the element meitnerium was later named.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
meitnium
Today it means: (obsolete) A rejected name for protactinium. Full definition →
Today it means: (obsolete) A rejected name for protactinium. Full definition →
From Meitner + -ium, after Lise Meitner, after whom the element meitnerium was later named.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.