illinium

Questions

What does illinium mean?

A rejected name for promethium.

Where does illinium come from?

From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.

How to pronounce illinium

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