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actinide

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The actinide or actinoid ( IUPAC nomenclature ) series encompasses the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers from 89 to 103, actinium through lawrencium . The actinide series derives its name from the first element in the series, actinium. The ...

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n. any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 [syn: actinoid , actinon ]

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n. (context inorganic chemistry English) Any of the 14 radioactive elements of the periodic table that are positioned under the lanthanides to which they have similar chemistry.

Usage examples of actinide.

Stalinist lapels and hemlines into spangly kitsch, the Day-Glo designer industrial-waste outlets vending pet elements from beyond the actinide seriesin all this synthetic needs-mongering, Kraft and Linda stumble upon a bookstore.

This was Touch-Down Time, when the citizens of the bustling, prosperous planet of Fomalhaut V - rich in the transuranics, the actinides, so vital as the energy fuels needed to extend the surge of colonization to every habitable planet in the spiral of the Milky Way - relaxed industry and inhibitions in a three-day spectacular of day-long contests, night-long dancing, and eating and carousing.

And Ireta, a satellite of a suspected third generation sun, ought to be rich in the heavier elements, rich in the transuranics and actinides, neptunium, plutonium and the more esoteric of the rare elements above uranium on the periodic table, so urgently and constantly required by the Federation of Sentient Populations, the search for which was one of the primary tasks of the EEC.

But there's also three more rows of lights underneath where the actinide series usually goes.