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  • noun physics The radioactive isotope of actinium, 22789Ac, having a half-life of 21.7 years

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From radio- +‎ actinium

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  • Here he discovered radioactinium and conducted investigations with Rutherford on alpha-rays of radiothorium and radioactinium.

    Otto Hahn - Biography 1964

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