roentgenate

English

Etymology

From German Röntgen (“Roentgen”) (the surname of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays) + the chemical suffix -ate.

Noun

roentgenate (uncountable)

  1. A salt or derivative of roentgenic acid, similar in structure or composition to a gold salt due to the placement of roentgenium (Rg, element 111) in the periodic table.

References

  • "roentgenate" in Systematic Nomenclature of Organic, Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry: Chemical-biochemical, and Inorganic Nomenclature, published 2007, page 544.
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