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CLAMBER |
Soft silver-white element |
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LITHIUM |
Soft silver-white element |
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SILVER |
A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very
malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native,
and also combined... |
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BARIUM |
Soft silvery-white element |
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LAV/SIUM |
A supposed new metallic element. It is said to have been
discovered in pyrites, and some other minerals, and to be of a
silver-white color, and malleable. |
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MOLYBDENUM |
A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in
nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced
obtained as a hard, silve... |
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RUBIDIUM |
...but in
small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft
yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its
propertie... |
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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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GERMANIUM |
A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver
ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal,
chemically intermedi... |
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TELLURIUM |
A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and
selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white
metallic luster, but ... |
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IRIDIUM |
A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum,
which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle,
and indifferent t... |
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THALLIUM |
...ure of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft,
bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by
keeping under water. ... |
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INDIUM |
...e it resembles zinc, being white or lead
gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation
it resembles aluminium or galliu... |
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GLUCINUM |
A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low
specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally
in the free s... |
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MAGNESIUM |
A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and
ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It
burns, forming (the ox... |
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PLATINUM |
A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver
and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the
platinum arsenide... |
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SODIUM |
... nature
always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is
isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized
... |
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PALLADIUM |
A rare metallic element of the light platinum group,
found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a
silver-white metal resembli... |