rhodium
See also: Rhodium
English
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Rh | |
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Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions.
Pronunciation
- enPR: rō'dēəm, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊdiəm/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -oʊdiəm
Noun
rhodium (usually uncountable, plural rhodiums)
- A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
Derived terms
- rhodate
- rhodium-gold
- rhodium trichloride
Related terms
- rhodic
- rhodo- and its derivatives
- rhodonite
- rhodium wood, lignum rhodium
Translations
chemical element
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Danish
Noun
rhodium n (definite singular rhodiummet) (uncountable)
- rhodium (a metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with atomic number 45)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɔ.djɔm/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “rhodium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Chemical element | |
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Rh | |
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Next: palladium (Pd) |
Etymology
Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔːd̪ium]
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
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