element 108

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   a radioactive transuranic element

   SynonymshassiumHsatomic number 108

   Broaderchemical element

Questions about element 108

What does element 108 mean?

element 108 means "a radioactive transuranic element".

What is another word for element 108?

Close synonyms include hassium, Hs, atomic number 108. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is element 108 a common word?

element 108 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.