ACTINIDE SERIES

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("actinide series" is a kind of...):

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

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