actinide series

Noun
  1. (chemistry) a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium (synset 114649288)
    referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
    is a type of: series - similar things placed in order or happening one after another

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