balonium
English
editEtymology
editFrom baloney + -ium. See baloney (“nonsense”).
Noun
editbalonium (uncountable)
- A fictional chemical element.
- 1990, Analog science fact, science fiction: Volume 110:
- I assumed starship fuel (antimatter or balonium) could be produced from electricity with perfect conversion, so it cost exactly what electricity did — good enough for the one-digit-or-so accuracy needed.
- 1993, American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education:
- Suppose that we have a Geiger counter and we are able to make measurements, during a ten hour period, of the balonium sample.
- 2004, Mark T. Holtzapple, W. Dan Reece, Concepts in Engineering:
- The data in Table 7.7 were taken for the highly radioactive element balonium-245.