illinium
A rejected name for promethiumA rejected name for promethium.
Meaning
1 senses(obsolete, uncountable)A rejected name for promethium.
Origin
From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an uFrom Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable