Radioactive element
The crossword clue "Radioactive element" is answered by RADON, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RADON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RADON answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- PLUTONIUM (3 uses in xd)
- ASTATINE (1 uses in xd)
- CALIFORNIUM (1 uses in xd)
- CERIUM (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for RADON
Every other clue in this collection answered by RADON, most used first.
- Hazardous gas - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Dangerous gas - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Gaseous element - used 17 times, most recently in 2007
- Harmful gas - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Hazardous household gas - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Heaviest noble gas - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Heaviest of the noble gases - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Dangerous household gas - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Inert gas - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Dangerous emission - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Home health hazard - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Unwelcome house gas - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Dangerous noble gas - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Element #86 - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Heavy noble gas - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Radioactive gas - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- The fifth element - BORON, used 41 times
- Element #5 - BORON, used 34 times
- Element #54 - XENON, used 16 times
- Chemical element - BORON, used 10 times
- Fifth element - BORON, used 10 times
- Gaseous element - ARGON, used 9 times
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