actinide series

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   (chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium

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Questions about actinide series

What does actinide series mean?

actinide series means "(chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium".

Is actinide series a common word?

actinide series is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.