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dubnium

a synthetic transactinide element produced in minute quantities by bombarding plutonium with high-energy neon ions. Symbol: Du; atomic no. 105
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dubnium

[′düb·nē·əm]
(chemistry)
A chemical element, symbolized Db, atomic number 105, a synthetic element; the thirteenth transuranium element.
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The resulting 6x6 square on the left is an exact anagram (transposition) of the letters in the 6x6 square on the right: Left square: Hydrogen Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Fluorine Silicon Argon Potassium Scandium Germanium Cadmium Indium Tin Xenon Barium Praseodymium Neodymium Erbium Thulium Lutetium Tantalum Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Mercury Thallium Lead Actinium Thorium Protactinium Plutonium Einsteinium Seaborgium Hassium transposed, yields Right square: Lithium Oxygen Sodium Aluminium Chlorine Chromium Iron Copper Gallium Arsenic Selenium Strontium Yttrium Niobium Palladium Antimony Iodine Caesium Lanthanum Promethium Samarium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Ytterbium Tungsten Gold Astatine Radon Francium Uranium Curium Nobelium Dubnium Bohrium Meitnerium
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Twenty-two element names failed to produce any words using the same letter banks: berkelium, beryllium, bohrium, dubnium, hafnium, holmium, joliotium, krypton, kurehatovium, mendelevium, molybdenum, neodymium, niobium, nobelium, promethium, rutherfordium, unnilhexium, vanadium, wolfram, ytterbium, yttrium, zirconium.
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