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nounvirginium (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableA rejected name for francium.
Because he had found six minima for every salt of virginium—VaCl, VaNO3, Va2SO4, and VaOH—he asserted that virginium consisted of a mixture of six stable isotopes. Allison also found virginium present in other minerals […]
2014, Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side, page 328
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From Virginia (US state) + -ium, proposed in 1930 by Fred Allison, whose claim to have discovered the element was later disproven.
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virginium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/virginium
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “virginium,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/virginium.
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