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Cadmium
noun · 78% connection
A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Caesium
noun · 78% connection
A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first el…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Calcium
noun · 78% connection
An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Cerium
noun · 78% connection
A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Chromium
noun · 78% connection
A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Columbium
noun · 78% connection
A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Erbium
noun · 78% connection
A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Gallium
noun · 78% connection
A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its lo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Germanium
noun · 78% connection
A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Gold
verb · 78% connection
A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yello…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Indium
noun · 78% connection
A rare metallic element, discovered in certain ores of zinc, by means of its characteristic spectrum of two indigo blue lines; hence,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Iridium
noun · 78% connection
A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Magnesium
noun · 78% connection
A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, formin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Mercury
noun · 78% connection
A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly cal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
Nickel
noun · 78% connection
A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, element, found, platinum.
