Scientific Terms
Scientific terms derived from the name of Pluto include:
- Pluto, the name of the dwarf planet, with related terms plutoid and plutino
- plutonium, the heaviest primordial element
- pluton, a term of petrology
- plutonism, a geologic theory
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