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Meaning of nipponium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A chemical element, supposed to be the then-undiscovered technetium, but later identified as rhenium.

dated, uncountable

Examples

“Element between molybdenum and ruthenium (perhaps Ogawa's nipponium)”
“Tiede at Berlin University told Toshiyuki Majima that nipponium might be rhenium when the latter visited him in 1938.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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