Actinide

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  • noun. Any of a series of chemically similar, radioactive elements with atomic numbers ranging from 89 (actinium) through 103 (lawrencium).
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  • noun. Any of the 14 radioactive elements of the periodic table that are positioned under the lanthanides to which they have similar chemistry.
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  • noun. any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103
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    "They do, however, create actinide-free waste that is much less radioactive, with a half-life of a couple of hundred years (as opposed to tens of thousands of years for LWR waste)."
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