Etymology

roentgenate

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Today it means: A salt or derivative of roentgenic acid, similar in structure or composition to a gold salt due to the placement of roentgenium (Rg, element 111) in the periodic table. Full definition →

German Röntgen
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  1. German · derived fromRöntgen“Roentgen”
  2. English todayroentgenate

From German Röntgen (“Roentgen”) (the surname of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays) + the chemical suffix -ate.

Words from the same roots

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