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technetium noun. M20.
[mod. Latin, from Greek tekhnetos artificial, from tekhnasthai make by art, from tekhne: see TECHNIC, -IUM.]
A radioactive chemical element of the transition series, atomic no. 43, which is a dense refractory metal produced in reactors as a fission product of uranium and by neutron irradiation of molybdenum 98, and is used as a tracer in scintigraphy etc.; symbol Tc. Cf. MASURIUM.