californium
ca·li·for·nium
noun
1.
a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles
Origin
From California + -ium. The element was first synthesized at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), thus named after the university and the U.S. state of California.
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