plutonium
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Pu | |
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After Pluto (the entity formerly considered to be a planet) + -ium.
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plutonium (usually uncountable, plural plutoniums)
- The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 94 and symbol Pu: a silvery-gray fissile radioactive actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.
- 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
- For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
- (countable, historical) Alternative form of ploutonion
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chemical element
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Pu | |
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plutonium (uncountable)
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plutonium n
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plutonium n
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Pu | |
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plutonium n (uncountable)
Finnish edit
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Internationalism (see English plutonium).
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plutonium
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Inflection of plutonium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | plutonium | plutoniumit | ||
genitive | plutoniumin | plutoniumien | ||
partitive | plutoniumia | plutoniumeja | ||
illative | plutoniumiin | plutoniumeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | plutonium | plutoniumit | ||
accusative | nom. | plutonium | plutoniumit | |
gen. | plutoniumin | |||
genitive | plutoniumin | plutoniumien | ||
partitive | plutoniumia | plutoniumeja | ||
inessive | plutoniumissa | plutoniumeissa | ||
elative | plutoniumista | plutoniumeista | ||
illative | plutoniumiin | plutoniumeihin | ||
adessive | plutoniumilla | plutoniumeilla | ||
ablative | plutoniumilta | plutoniumeilta | ||
allative | plutoniumille | plutoniumeille | ||
essive | plutoniumina | plutoniumeina | ||
translative | plutoniumiksi | plutoniumeiksi | ||
abessive | plutoniumitta | plutoniumeitta | ||
instructive | — | plutoniumein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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compounds
Further reading edit
- “plutonium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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plutonium m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “plutonium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /pluːˈtoː.ni.um/, [pɫ̪uːˈt̪oːniʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pluˈto.ni.um/, [pluˈt̪ɔːnium]
Noun edit
plūtōnium n (genitive plūtōniī); second declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | plūtōnium | plūtōnia |
Genitive | plūtōniī | plūtōniōrum |
Dative | plūtōniō | plūtōniīs |
Accusative | plūtōnium | plūtōnia |
Ablative | plūtōniō | plūtōniīs |
Vocative | plūtōnium | plūtōnia |
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Pu | |
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From English plutonium, from Pluto.
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plutonium
- plutonium (chemical element)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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plutonium n (definite singular plutoniumet) (uncountable)
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plutonium n (definite singular plutoniumet) (uncountable)
- plutonium (as above)
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plutonium n
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Nominative | plutonium | plutoniumet | — | — |
Genitive | plutoniums | plutoniumets | — | — |