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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A synthetic transuranic element first produced by neutron irradiation of uranium in a thermonuclear explosion and now usually produced in the laboratory by irradiating plutonium and other elements. Its longest-lived isotope is Es 254 with a half-life of 276 days. Atomic number 99; melting point 860°C. See Table at element.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons

Etymologies

  1. Einstein +‎ -ium. Named for Albert Einstein. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Albert Einstein. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “Don't expect much, after all these are the people behind elements like californium and einsteinium.”

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  • “I really hope that’s just slang and it has a real-sounding name because I’m just now getting used to einsteinium.”

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  • chained_bear "Well, who doesn't? I mean, if that's the criterion, we might as well call it everybodybuteinsteinium."

    This is the best comment ever. Dec 18, 2007

  • reesetee Depending on the photo, Einstein bears a rather disturbing resemblance to one of my brothers. So maybe everybodybuteinsteinandreeseteesbrotherium.

    I'm just saying. Dec 18, 2007

  • uselessness Well, who doesn't? I mean, if that's the criterion, we might as well call it everybodybuteinsteinium. Dec 17, 2007

  • reesetee Plus uselessness has better hair. Or so I've heard. ;-) Dec 17, 2007

  • sionnach I think calling it Inutilium would be klassier. Dec 17, 2007

  • sonofgroucho Sometimes well-deserved recognition is so long in coming.

    That Einstein guy was pretty daft, really. Dec 17, 2007

  • uselessness They're renaming this one, because as it turns out, Albert Einstein wasn't nearly so amazingly smart. Starting in 2010 this element will be known as uselessnessium. Dec 17, 2007

  • oroboros Es. Dec 15, 2007

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