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(Greek: weight, heavy; atmospheric pressure; a combining form meaning "pressure", as in barotaxis, or sometimes "weight", as in baromacrometer)
(Latin: dull, heavy, stupid)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, baros, heavy; because its compounds are dense; metal)
(Latin: heavy, weighty)
(Latin: pregnant, pregnancy [from grav-, heavy])
(Latin: weight, weigh; heavy; to consider, to think about; closely related to this pend-, "hang, weigh, to hand down" unit of words)
(Modern Latin: from Swedish, tung sten, "heavy stone"; the symbol is from German Wolfram;, named for the tungsten mineral wolframite; metal)
(Greek: rain, rain fall; heavy shower)
(Greek via Latin: bone between two joints of a finger or toe; line of battle; from phalanx, heavy infantry in close order [from Greek antiquity])
(Latin: rain, raining, rain water, rainy; rain fall; heavy showers)
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“heavy”
The production of steel, coal, or large goods; such as, aircraft.
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stru-, struct-, -structure, -struction, -structive
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heavy ion
In nuclear physics, any particle with one or more units of electric charge and a mass exceeding that of the helium-4 nucleus (alpha particle).
Special types of accelerators are capable of producing fairly intense, high-energy beams of heavy ions, which are used in basic research, as in the production of synthetic transuranium elements (for example, hahnium [atomic number 105]).
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ion, ion- +
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