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A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope
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promethium
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n. a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium [syn: Pm , atomic number 61 ]
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Promethium may refer to: Promethium , the chemical element A fictional petroleum-based fossil fuel as well as a refined napalm-like substance in Warhammer 40,000 Promethium, the name of the Mechanic Empire's queen in the fictional universe of Leiji Matsumoto ...
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radioactive element, long one of the "missing elements," 1948, so called by discoverers Jacob Marinsky and Lawrence Glendenin, who detected it in 1945 in the fusion products of uranium while working on the Manhattan Project. From Prometheus , who stole ...
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n. A metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Pm) with an atomic number of 61.