plutonium
Probably Plutonium but I do not think it is named after Pluto.
Plutonium is named after the planet Pluto. Neptunium is named after the planet Neptune. Uranium is named after the planet Uranus.
The element plutonium was named after the dwarf planet Pluto. Plutonium was discovered in 1940, the same year that Pluto was discovered, and both were named in honor of the Roman god of the underworld, Pluto.
Plutonium is the element named after the planet Pluto. It is a radioactive element with a half-life of thousands of years, not millions.
Plutonium is an element. It is named for the Ancient Roman god of the underworld, Pluto. This follows the pattern for naming of all planets after the Greco-Roman gods. At the time it was named, Pluto was considered to be a planet.
"U" is named for Uranus, a planet in the solar system, while "Pu" is named after Pluto, another planet. Another element named after a similar object is Neptunium, which is named after the planet Neptune.
Pluto. Is Pluto a planet these days?
The planet with a moon named Charon is Pluto. Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons and it is about half the size of Pluto itself.
The radioactive element plutonium was named after the planet Pluto. It was discovered in 1940 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, and Edwin M. McMillan at the University of California, Berkeley.
The name of the chemical element plutonium is derived from the name of the dwarf planet Pluto. And the name of the planet is derived from the name of the Roman god of the underworld.
the Roman god of death Pluto
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