Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A synthetic transuranic element first produced by neutron irradiation of uranium in a thermonuclear explosion and now usually produced in the laboratory by irradiating plutonium and other elements. The isotopes with the longest half-lives are Es-252 (472 days) and Es-254 (276 days). Atomic number 99; melting point 860°C (estimated); valence 2, 3. cross-reference: Periodic Table.
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- noun a
transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) withatomic number 99.
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- noun a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Albert Einstein.]
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Einstein + -ium. Named for Albert Einstein.
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Examples
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Don't expect much, after all these are the people behind elements like californium and einsteinium.
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We are not including words coming from the names of particular people, like einsteinium, watt, curium, henry, and other eponyms: we refer here only to first names that have acquired meanings of their own or that, by association, have acquired special connotations.
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I really hope that’s just slang and it has a real-sounding name because I’m just now getting used to einsteinium.
oroboros commented on the word einsteinium
Es.
December 16, 2007
uselessness commented on the word einsteinium
They're renaming this one, because as it turns out, Albert Einstein wasn't nearly so amazingly smart. Starting in 2010 this element will be known as uselessnessium.
December 17, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word einsteinium
Sometimes well-deserved recognition is so long in coming.
That Einstein guy was pretty daft, really.
December 17, 2007
sionnach commented on the word einsteinium
I think calling it Inutilium would be klassier.
December 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word einsteinium
Plus uselessness has better hair. Or so I've heard. ;-)
December 18, 2007
uselessness commented on the word einsteinium
Well, who doesn't? I mean, if that's the criterion, we might as well call it everybodybuteinsteinium.
December 18, 2007
reesetee commented on the word einsteinium
Depending on the photo, Einstein bears a rather disturbing resemblance to one of my brothers. So maybe everybodybuteinsteinandreeseteesbrotherium.
I'm just saying.
December 18, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word einsteinium
"Well, who doesn't? I mean, if that's the criterion, we might as well call it everybodybuteinsteinium."
This is the best comment ever.
December 18, 2007