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Chemical element   /kˈɛməkəl ˈɛləmənt/   Listen
Chemical element

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: element.






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"Chemical element" Quotes from Famous Books



... words for new ideas out of the old material existing in the language; others, like the English, prefer to go to the ancient languages of Greece and Rome for terms to express new ideas. The same chemical element is described in the two languages as sour stuff (Sauerstoff) and as oxygen. Both terms mean the same thing etymologically as well as in fact. On behalf of the German method, it may be contended that the new idea is more closely attached ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... ray of light is used in its place. You speak behind a mirror, and thus cause it to vibrate. These vibrations modify the reflection of light from the vibrating mirror, which thus bears along your voice, with which it becomes charged. Selenium, the chemical element used in the operation, transmits the sound to the telephone, and your spoken word ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Chemical element" :   noble gas, md, se, atomic number 15, atomic number 8, atomic number 32, nonmetal, c, atomic number 7, db, element 107, Xe, atomic number 17, Hs, Lr, as, no, element 110, neon, Uup, atomic number 104, atomic number 89, iodine, element, carbon, ununtrium, atomic number 53, element 115, iodin, lawrencium, ar, atomic number 116, atomic number 52, atomic number 102, inert gas, atomic number 111, atomic number 35, silicon, Uuq, atomic number 105, element 104, element 105, seaborgium, hassium, F, i, atomic number 106, h, phosphorus, Uuh, argon, fluorine, atomic number 16, rutherfordium, meitnerium, element 114, oxygen, chlorine, selenium, kr, substance, atomic number 103, cl, atomic number 34, atomic number 110, atomic number 108, element 111, atomic number 1, atomic number 114, element 106, atomic number 107, transuranic element, element 109, ununquadium, Ge, atomic number 85, Sg, atomic number 36, Pu, mt, bromine, boron, N, arsenic, atomic number 101, transactinide, nobelium, tellurium, rf, atomic number 109, sulfur, unnilquadium, element 113, atomic number 54, Bh, Unq, mendelevium, te, dubnium, atomic number 94, krypton, astatine, atomic number 5, s, sulphur, element 112, atomic number 9, atomic number 14, ununhexium, atomic number 18, hydrogen, atomic number 112, helium, atomic number 10, element 108, atomic number 86, Uut, ununbium, argonon, he, br, xenon, bohrium, b, Uub, germanium, rn, darmstadtium, trace element, atomic number 2, radon, allotrope, ne, atomic number 113, metallic element, element 116, atomic number 115, O, si, atomic number 33, atomic number 6, nitrogen, ununpentium, metal, P, at, plutonium, roentgenium, mv, actinium, ac, atom, hahnium, Rg, ds



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