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ACTINIDE SERIES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does actinide series mean?
• ACTINIDE SERIES (noun)
The noun ACTINIDE SERIES has 1 sense:
1. (chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium
Familiarity information: ACTINIDE SERIES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("actinide series" is a kind of...):
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
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