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- noun chemistry, obsolete A rejected name for
dubnium .
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Named for Frédéric Joliot-Curie, with -ium.
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One of the proposed names for element 105 was joliotium, after Fréderic Joliot-Curie, which I think is cooler, personally.
Periodic groups Matthew Guerrieri 2009
qroqqa commented on the word joliotium
(symbol Jl) former IUPAC-proposed name for element 105, now called dubnium; after physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie
July 10, 2008