element 116

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   a radioactive transuranic element

   SynonymsununhexiumUuhatomic number 116

   Broaderchemical element

Questions about element 116

What does element 116 mean?

element 116 means "a radioactive transuranic element".

What is another word for element 116?

Close synonyms include ununhexium, Uuh, atomic number 116. 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 116 a common word?

element 116 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.