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ili-30-14625458-n CILI: i113883
WordNet Domains: chemistry
SUMO Ontology: Metal+
Top Ontology: Solid= Substance+
Basic Level Concept: 00031921-n relation
Epinonyms: [1] chemical_element
[1] chemical_element |1|
[0] ili-30-14625458-n (has_hyperonym) |1|
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GL Variants
- elemento_metálico · [RILG] [DRAG]
- metal [meˈtal] · [RILG] [DRAG]
Trampas explosivas que enchen a cabeza de anacos de metal. [k02 (57)] SemCor Corpus
Gloss
calquera dos diversos elementos químicos que xeralmente son sólidos brillantes que conducen a calor ou a electricidade e pode estar formado por planchas etc.
PT Variants
- metal [mɨtˈał]
Gloss
qualquer um dos vários elementos químicos que são normalmente sólidos brilhantes que conduzem electricidade ou de calor e podem ser formados em folhas, etc.
CA Variants
- element_metàl·lic
- metall
EU Variants
- metal
ES Variants
- elemento_metálico
- metal
- metales
EN Variants
- metal ['mɛtəɫ]
- metallic_element
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any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
DE Variants
- Blechbläser
- Gold
- Metall
LA Variants
- metallum
IT Variants
- metallo
FR Variants
- métal
ZH_S Variants
- 金属
- 金属元素
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14622893-n: any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
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14612077-n: a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead)
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14618674-n: a metal that is common and not considered precious
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14627081-n: any metal that is resistant to corrosion or oxidation
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14627820-n: a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
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14628494-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms
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14628668-n: a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite
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14629998-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
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14631134-n: a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium
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14631295-n: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
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14631502-n: a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
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14632444-n: a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
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14632648-n: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals
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14633037-n: a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles
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14633957-n: a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group
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14634232-n: a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal
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14635092-n: a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing
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14635290-n: a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
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14635722-n: a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor
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14636220-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
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14636647-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; forms compounds that are highly magnetic
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14636822-n: a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
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14636988-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
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14637176-n: a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group
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14637339-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
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14637864-n: a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium
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14638041-n: a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group
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14638256-n: a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores
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14639556-n: a grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons
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14640222-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
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14641223-n: a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite
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14642219-n: a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium
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14642417-n: a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
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14643118-n: 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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14643467-n: a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
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14643793-n: a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals
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14644063-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium
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14644249-n: a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
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14644654-n: a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals
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14645346-n: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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14645661-n: a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel
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14645882-n: a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium
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14646403-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium
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14646610-n: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
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14646942-n: a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium
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14647907-n: a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
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14648754-n: a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
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14650556-n: a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor
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14650807-n: a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
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14651212-n: a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process
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14651479-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium
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14651708-n: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead
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14651921-n: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores
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14652390-n: a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum
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14652623-n: a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum
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14652954-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite
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14653242-n: a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum
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14653596-n: a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite
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14653831-n: a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite
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14655371-n: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
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14655731-n: a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite
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14656666-n: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite
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14657047-n: a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium
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14657566-n: a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
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14657818-n: a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores
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14658109-n: a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands
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14658546-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime
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14658855-n: a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
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14659211-n: a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
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14659512-n: a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
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14660443-n: a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
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14661020-n: a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
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14661482-n: a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime
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14661740-n: a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys
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14661977-n: a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende
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14662281-n: a lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon
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14712224-n: any of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium)
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14712489-n: any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)
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02905356-a: containing one atom of metal in the molecule
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01527420-a: containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal
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01603303-v: cover with metal
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00103664-r: continuing in the same way
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00106921-r: under normal conditions
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00142191-v: give shape or form to
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00281657-a: reflecting light
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04188643-n: a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
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11449907-n: a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons
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11466043-n: a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
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14622893-n: any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
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00149508-n: fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure
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00713135-n: the work of coating glass with metal foil
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00713250-n: either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting
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00719016-n: the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
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00924438-n: the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
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00925622-n: shaping metal by heating and hammering
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00925732-n: the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner
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02725872-n: a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering
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02737166-n: a covered gravy holder of silver or other metal containing a detachable central vessel for hot water to keep the gravy warm
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02739668-n: protective covering made of metal and used in combat
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04118776-n: measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
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08377454-n: a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series
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09208702-n: any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)
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14586769-n: a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
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14627820-n: a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
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14628494-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms
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14628668-n: a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite
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14629149-n: a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
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14629998-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
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14631295-n: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
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14631502-n: a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
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14632444-n: a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
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14632648-n: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals
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14633957-n: a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group
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14634232-n: a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal
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14635092-n: a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing
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14635290-n: a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
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14635722-n: a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor
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14636220-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
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14636647-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; forms compounds that are highly magnetic
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14636988-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
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14637176-n: a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group
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14637339-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
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14638041-n: a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group
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14638256-n: a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores
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14638799-n: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
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14639556-n: a grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons
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14640222-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
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14641223-n: a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite
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14642219-n: a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium
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14642417-n: a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
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14643118-n: 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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14643467-n: a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
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14644063-n: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium
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14644249-n: a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
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14644654-n: a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals
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14645346-n: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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14645661-n: a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel
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14645882-n: a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium
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14646403-n: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium
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14646610-n: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
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14646942-n: a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium
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14647907-n: a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
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14648754-n: a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
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14649543-n: a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits
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14650556-n: a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor
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14650807-n: a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
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14651212-n: a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process
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14651479-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium
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14651708-n: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead
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14651921-n: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores
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14652390-n: a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum
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14652623-n: a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum
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14652954-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite
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14653242-n: a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum
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14653596-n: a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite
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14653831-n: a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite
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14654954-n: a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
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14655371-n: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
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14655731-n: a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite
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14656666-n: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite
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14657047-n: a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium
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14657566-n: a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
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14657818-n: a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores
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14658109-n: a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands
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14658546-n: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime
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14658855-n: a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
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14659211-n: a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
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14659512-n: a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
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14660443-n: a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
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14661020-n: a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
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14661482-n: a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime
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14661740-n: a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys
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14661977-n: a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende
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14662281-n: a lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon
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14712224-n: any of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium)
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14712489-n: any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)
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14716550-n: an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
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14718099-n: any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
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14719291-n: an alloy of nickel and copper and other metals (such as iron and/or manganese and/or aluminum)
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14953240-n: a pyrophoric alloy made from a mixture of rare-earth metals