molybdenum

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Molybdenum cube and fragment.

Etymology

From New Latin molybdenum, from Ancient Greek μόλυβδος (“lead”), because the two elements are so similar they were often confused.

Noun

molybdenum (uncountable)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Mo) with an atomic number of 42.
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, Well Tackled!^[1]:

     Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]

Derived terms

Derived terms

ferromolybdenum moly molybdate molybdenated molybdenian molybdenum blue molybdenum carbonyl molybdenum chloride

molybdenum disulfide, molybdenum disulphide molybdenum hexacarbonyl molybdenum orange molybdenum oxide molybdenum sulfide, molybdenum sulphide molybdenum trioxide molybdian molybdo-

Related terms

Related terms

molybdena molybdenite molybdic

molybdite molybdous

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: molibdeen (af)
• Albanian: molibden (sq)
• Arabic: موليبدنيوم (ar) (mulíbdinum) m
• Armenian: մոլիբդեն (hy) (molibden)
• Asturian: molibdenu (ast) m
• Basque: molibdenoa (eu)
• Belarusian: малiбдэн (be) (malibdén) m
• Breton: molibden (br)
• Bulgarian: молибден (bg) (molíbdеn) m
• Catalan: molibdèn (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉬 (cmn) (mù)

• Cornish: molybdenum (kw)
• Czech: molybden (cs)
• Danish: molybdæn (da)
• Dutch: molybdeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: molibdeno (eo)
• Estonian: molübdeen (et)
• Faroese: molybden (fo)
• Finnish: molybdeeni (fi)
• French: molybdène (fr) m
• Georgian: მოლიბდენი (ka) (molibdeni)
• German: Molybdän (de) n
• Greek: μολυβδένιο (el) (molyvdénio) n
• Hebrew: מוליבדן (he) (molibdén)
• Hindi: संवर्णातु (hi) (sanvarnaatu)
• Hungarian: molibdén (hu)
• Icelandic: mólýbden (is)
• Interlingua: molybdenum (ia)
• Irish: molaibdéineam (ga)
• Italian: molibdeno (it) m
• Japanese: モリブデン (ja) (moribuden)
• Kashubian: molibdén (csb)

• Kazakh: молибден (kk) (molibden)
• Korean: 몰리브덴 (ko) (mollibeuden), 수연 (ko) (水鉛, suyeon), 휘수연정광 (ko) (輝水鉛精鑛, hwisuyeonjeonggwang), 몰리브데넘 (ko) (mollibeudeneom)
• Latvian: molibdens (lv)
• Lithuanian: molibdenas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Molybdän (lb)
• Macedonian: молибден (mk) (molibdén) m
• Malay: molibdenum (ms)
• Maltese: molibdenu (mt)
• Manx: molybdenum (gv)
• Mongolian: молибден (mn) (molibden)
• Norwegian: molybden (no)
• Polish: molibden (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Portugal) molibdénio (pt), (Brazil) molibdênio (pt) m
• Romanian: molibden (ro) n
• Russian: молибден (ru) (molibdén) m
• Scottish Gaelic: molaibdeanam (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: молибден (sh) m

  Roman: molibden (sh)

• Slovak: molibdén (sk)
• Slovene: molybden (sl)
• Spanish: molibdeno (es) m
• Swedish: molybden (sv) n
• Tajik: molibden (tg) (molibden)
• Tamil: போன்றீயம் (ta) (pondreeyam)
• Thai: โมลิบดีนัม (th) (mōlibdīnam)
• Turkish: molibden (tr)
• Ukrainian: молiбден (uk) (molibdén) m
• Uzbek: молибден (uz) (molibden)
• Vietnamese: molypđen, (vi)
• Welsh: molybdenwm (cy)
• West Frisian: molybdeen (fy)

See also

• powellite
• wulfenite