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METAL |
Hard element |
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GALLIUM |
A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is
white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for
its low melting... |
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MOLYBDENUM |
...n
nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced
obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo.
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SURD |
...r proper
vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered;
aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See
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MANGANESE |
An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a
hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily
oxidized. Its ores occur abu... |
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RUTHENIUM |
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associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle
steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight
103.5. Spe... |
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NICKEL |
A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron
group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with
sulphur in miller... |
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OSMIUM |
...und native
as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard,
infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance
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TUNGSTEN |
...tain
minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray
metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic
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CHROMIUM |
...antly in
the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it
is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty.... |
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SONANT |
...ls, and particularly of the consonants b,
d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc.,
which are called nonvocal, surd,... |
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URANIUM |
...n rare
minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard,
nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is u... |