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单词 alabamine
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alabaminen.

Brit. /ˌaləˈbamiːn/, /ˌaləˈbamɪn/, U.S. /ˌæləˈbæmin/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Alabama , -ine suffix5.
Etymology: < the name of the U.S. state of Alabama (see Alabama n.) + -ine suffix5, with allusion to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at which physicists were working to isolate the element.The name Alabamium is recorded earlier as a name for this element but was not widely adopted; compare: 1930 Time 17 Feb. 44/3 Last week Dr. Fred Allison and Edgar Jackson Murphy of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., reported that they had ‘evidence of considerable weight for the presence’ of eka-cesium... For eka-cesium, alabamium is appropriate for the state in which the discoverers work.Allison's claims to have isolated the element were later disputed.
Chemistry. Now historical.
(A name proposed for) the chemical element astatine. Cf. anglo-helvetium n.
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1932 F. Allison et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 54 616 We suggest the name Alabamine and symbol Am for element 85.
1936 Nature 13 June 969/2 The problems of illinium, masurium, virginium, and alabamine.
1990 Dædalus Fall 98 The Allison effect..allowed the identification of now long-forgotten new elements (Alabamine, Virginium) and a slew of nonexistent isotopes.
2001 J. Emsley Nature's Buliding Blocks 47 They decided to call it alabamine, after the US state of Alabama, but their claim was mistaken.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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