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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, substance, associated, metal.
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, substance, associated, metal.
Davyum
noun · 78% connection
A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
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, substance, associated, metal.
Eschynite
noun · 78% connection
A rare mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so called by Berzelius on account of the inability o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
Gadolinite
noun · 78% connection
a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
Gadolinium
noun · 78% connection
A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuali…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
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, substance, associated, metal.
Gas
noun · 78% connection
An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
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, substance, associated, metal.
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, substance, associated, metal.
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, substance, associated, metal.
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
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
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, substance, associated, metal.
Matte
noun · 78% connection
A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
Metallic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
Metalloid
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rare, metallic, substance, associated, metal.
