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“element”
1. A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity.
2. The basic assumptions or principles of a subject.
3. A substance composed of atoms having an identical number of protons in each nucleus. Certain elements can't be reduced to simpler substances by normal chemical means.
4. One of four substances: earth, air, fire, or water; formerly regarded as a fundamental constituent of the universe.
5. The resistance wire in an electrical appliance; such as, a heater or an oven.
6. The forces that constitute the weather; especially, severe or inclement weather: Outdoors, the paint on Jim's house had been damaged by the elements.
7. An environment naturally suited to or associated with an individual: Henry is in his element when he is traveling.
9. Etymology: from Latin elementum, "first principle, rudiment, component, ingredient".
2. The basic assumptions or principles of a subject.
3. A substance composed of atoms having an identical number of protons in each nucleus. Certain elements can't be reduced to simpler substances by normal chemical means.
4. One of four substances: earth, air, fire, or water; formerly regarded as a fundamental constituent of the universe.
5. The resistance wire in an electrical appliance; such as, a heater or an oven.
6. The forces that constitute the weather; especially, severe or inclement weather: Outdoors, the paint on Jim's house had been damaged by the elements.
7. An environment naturally suited to or associated with an individual: Henry is in his element when he is traveling.
The business world is Hazel's element.
8. A distinct group within a larger community: There is an opposition element in the President's staff and cabinet.9. Etymology: from Latin elementum, "first principle, rudiment, component, ingredient".
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(Greek: spider; the arachnoidea; when used in medicine this Greek element refers to a membrane, veins, or any web-like structure in the body)
(Greek: deep, depth; the fauna and flora of the bottom of the sea; sea bottom; depth [by extension, this element includes lake, river, and stream bottoms])
(Greek > Latin: reed, pipe; the word for "reed" in Hebrew, Arabic, and Egyptian was kaneh; then the word element passed into Greek and Latin, and into the languages of western Europe)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, aktis, aktinos ray; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, alumen, a substance having an astringent taste; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; a form of America; radioactive metal)
(Greek: chemical element; antimonos, opposed to solitude; symbol Sb is from Latin stibium [powdered antimony]; some say antimony means, “a metal seldom found alone”; metal)
(Greek: argus, neutral, inactive, idle, inert; gas)
(Latin: arsenicum, yellow; gold, golden; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, astatos, unstable; radioactive nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, baros, heavy; because its compounds are dense; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, beryllus, and Greek, beryllos, gem; metal)
(German: Wismut [wise, “meadow”] plus [mut, “claim to a mine”]; changed to bismat; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist; radioactive metal)
(Arabic: boraq, and Persian, burah [borax]; BORax + carbON; nonmetal)
(Greek: bromos, a stench; because of the odor [stench] from its vapors; liquid nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, cadmia, earthy or earth; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, calx, calcis, lime; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the University of California and named for California and the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Latin: carbo, coal, charcoal; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for the asteroid Ceres which was discovered in 1803 and named for the Roman goddess Ceres; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, caesius, bluish gray; sky blue; metal)
(Greek: chloros, grass-green; a reference to the color of the gas which tends to be greenish-yellow; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, chroma, color; because many of its compounds are colored; metal)
(German: Kobalt; also Kobolt, a goblin, evil spirit, or malicious sprite; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, cuprum, referring to the island of Cyprus; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Pierre and Marie Curie; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named after the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, dysprositos, hard to get at; difficult to access; hard to obtain; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Albert Einstein; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ytterby, a village in Sweden; where gadolite was found; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Europe; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, fluere, to flow; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for France; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named after gadolinite, a mineral named for Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), a Finnish chemist and mineralogist; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Gallia, the Latin name for the area that became France after the fall of the Roman Empire; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Germany; metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: gold, Sanskrit juel, to shine; the symbol is from Latin aurum, shining down; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Hafnia, the Latinized name of Copenhagen; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from a Latin word Hassias meaning “Hess”, the German state of Hessen; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, helios, the sun, first observed in the sun’s atmosphere; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Holmia, the Latinized form of Stockholm; rare earth)
(Greek: hydor, "water", plus gen, "born", "forming"; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, indicum, indigo [a blue Indian dye]; metal)
(Greek: iodes, "violet"; from the color of its vapor; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, iris, a "rainbow", because of the changing color of its salts; metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: iron, the symbol is from Latin ferrum which also means iron; metal)
(Greek: kryptos, "hidden"; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lanthanein, "hidden", "to be concealed"; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ernest Lawrence, an American physicist and inventor of the cyclotron; radioactive metal)
(Anglo-Saxon: lead; the symbol is from the Latin plumbum, "lead")
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lithos, "stone, stony"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Gaulish-Latin, Lutetia, a fortified town of a Gaulish tribe of the Parisii, the ancient name of Paris; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, Magnesia, a district in Asia Minor; metal)
(Latin: magnes, "magnet"; because of confusion with magnetic iron ores; or magnesia nigri, meaning "black magnesia"; metal)
(Latin: named for Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléyev, a Russian chemist who contributed so much to the development of the periodic table; radioactive metal)
(Latin: named for the Roman god Mercurius; the symbol is from Latin hydrargyrum, "liquid silver"; liquid metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, molybdos, "lead"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, neo, "new" plus didymon, "twin" [with the element praseodymium]; rare earth)
(Greek: neo, "new" or the "new one"; gas)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Neptune, the first planet beyond Uranus; radioactive metal)
(German: Nickel, name for "Satan"; kupfernickel, meaning "Devil’s copper" or "St Nicholas’s (Old Nick’s) copper"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the goddess, Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. This element is also known as columbium; metal)
(Latin: "forming niter", or “niter producer”; because niter, a mineral properly called potassium nitrate, and contains nitrogen, a compound of nitrogen; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Alfred Nobel; the discovery was made at the Nobel Institute; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, osme, "smell", "malodorousness", "stink"; metal)
(Greek: oxys, "sharp", plus gen, "forming"; from the incorrect belief that oxygen forms acids; gas)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, named in honor of the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered at about the same time; and for Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom; metal)
(Greek: phosphoros, "light bringer", "morning star"; glows brightly because of rapid oxidation; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: a diminutive of the Spanish plata, "silver", "platina"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Pluto; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named by Murie Curie for her native Poland; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for potash, a compound of potassium; the symbol is from Latin kalium; from Arabic, gilf, and a reference to the charred ashes of the saltwort; metal)
(Greek: prasios, "green", plus didymos, "twin" [with the element neodymium] because of a green line in its spectrum; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven [the sun] for mankind; radioactive metal rare earth)
(Modern Latin: some say it comes from Greek proto, "first"; plus actinium, "ray"; so, “first actinium”; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin radius, meaning “ray”, because of its intense radioactivity; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from radium and argon, its chemical cousin; radioactive gas)
(Modern Latin: from Latin Rhenus, in honor of the Rhine River in Germany; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, rhodon, "rose"; in reference to the red color of its salts; metal)
(Named for German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen)
(Modern Latin: from Latin rubidus, "red"; from the red lines in its spectrum; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ruthenia [Latin for Russia] in the Urals, where one was first found; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist and chemist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for a Scandinavian mineral samarskite; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for Scandinavia; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999), an American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, selene, the moon; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin, silex, silicis, "flint"; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, sealfor, siolfur; the symbol is from Latin argentum, "silver"; metal)
(Modern Latin: English, soda, compound of sodium; the symbol comes from Latin natrium; "a salt"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Strontian, "a village in Scotland"; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Sanskrit, solvere; or sulvere; and Latin, sulphur; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, technetos, "artificial"; the first man-made artificial element; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: tellus, the "earth"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a village in Sweden; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, thallos, "a young, or green, twig or shoot" [based on the color of its spectrum]; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Thor, the Norse god of thunder; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, Thule, the Greek name for land north of Britain or for Scandinavia; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, tin; symbol from Latin stannum; meaning “tin”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from the Titans of classical mythology; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Swedish, tung sten, "heavy stone"; the symbol is from German Wolfram;, named for the tungsten mineral wolframite; metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Uranus; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the Scandinavian goddess Vanadis; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, xenon, "stranger"; gas)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a quarry in Sweden where the first rare earth had been discovered; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, near Vaxholm in Sweden; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from German, zink; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Arabic, zargun, "gold color"; metal)
(Chemical Elements are Listed with Links to Information about Each Chemical Element)
(Latin: two, double; a word element for the number "2")
(Latin: first principle, rudiment, primitive form)
(Greek: a suffix; pertaining to; of the nature of, like; in chemistry, it denotes a higher valence of the element than is expressed by -ous)
(Latin: a suffix; a place or instrument for performing the action of the main element; a place used for something)
(Latin: full of or having the qualities of; in chemistry, a suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.)
(Greek: something fixed or fastened together; a suffix that denotes conjoined twins, the first element of a word denotes the parts fused)
(Latin: foot, feet; people often see this ped element in other words. When people refer to "pedal extremities", they mean "feet". When anyone pushes the pedals of a bicycle, it is done with the feet. A pedestrian must use the feet for walking. A quadruped has four feet while a centipede has "100 feet"; or a large number of them because it may be impossible to count all of them.)
(Greek: fear, extreme fear of; morbid, excessive, irrational fear, or terror of something or someone; however, sometimes this Greek element also means a strong dislike, dread, or hatred for something or someone)
(Greek: light, light bringer, shine; morning star; a nonmetallic chemical element that ignites when exposed to air)
(Latin: four, fourth; a word element for number 4)
(Latin: five, fifth; a word element for number 5)
(Latin: fifth, five; a word element for 5)
(Latin: seven, seventh; a word element for number 7)
(Latin: six, sixth; a word element for number 6)
(Greek > Latin: a numerical prefix meaning, three, thrice, threefold; triple; a word element for number 3)
(Latin: one, single; a word element for number 1)
(Greek: wood; the first element of various scientific and technical words that refer to wood)
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“element”
Any of the most typical elements of the atmosphere: Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iodine, mercury, and inert gase are all considered to be atmophile elements .
An atmophile element can be in the uncombined state or, as volatile compounds, concentrate in the gaseous primordial atmosphere.
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philo-, phil-, -phile, -philia, -philic, -philous, -phily, -philiac, -philist, -philism
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electrothermal expansion element
An actuating element consisting of a wire strip or other shape and having a high coefficient of thermal expansion.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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thermo-, therm-, thermi-, -thermia, -therm, -thermal, -thermic, -thermias, -thermies, -thermous, -thermy
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The components of the geomagnetic field at the surface of the Earth: The different components in the geomagnetism of the world, called geomagnetic elements, are located on the exterior part of the Earth.
molybdenum chemical element
Information is located at Chemical Element:
molybdenum.
piezoelectric element
A crystal; such as, quartz, that produces an electric voltage when it is twisted or squeezed, and, conversely, that twists, bends, expands, or contracts when a voltage is applied to it. Commonly used as a transducer to convert mechanical or acoustical signals into electric signals or to regulate frequency in a crystal oscillator.
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