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Columbium

A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.

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Niobium 76% connected

A later name of columbium. See Columbium.

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Complex noun · 85% connection

a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

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Coordination compound noun · 85% connection

a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

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Organometallic compound noun · 85% connection

a compound containing an alkyl or aryl radical bonded to a metal.; "Tetracarbonyl nickel, and ferrocene are examples of organometallic…

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Metal noun · 85% connection

any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

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Metallic element noun · 85% connection

any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

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Hydrochloride noun · 84% connection

a complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride

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Al noun · 84% connection

a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

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Aluminium noun · 84% connection

a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

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Aluminum noun · 84% connection

a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

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Am noun · 84% connection

a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms

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Antimony noun · 84% connection

a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite

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Atomic number 11 noun · 84% connection

a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…

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Atomic number 19 noun · 84% connection

a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abun…

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Ba noun · 84% connection

a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

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Barium noun · 84% connection

a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

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Be noun · 84% connection

a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

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Beryllium noun · 84% connection

a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

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Bismuth noun · 84% connection

a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product…

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Amphibole noun · 78% connection

a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group

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Beryl noun · 78% connection

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…

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Brewsterite noun · 78% connection

A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and s…

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Decipium noun · 78% connection

A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samariu…

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Gieseckite noun · 78% connection

A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite.

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Glucinum noun · 78% connection

A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in t…

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Handsel noun · 78% connection

A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…

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Hartford noun · 78% connection

The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berr…

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La noun · 78% connection

a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth

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Lanthanum noun · 78% connection

A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthi…

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Lenni-Lenape n. pl. · 78% connection

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia.…

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Molybdenum noun · 78% connection

A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a ha…

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