niobium

English

Chemical element
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	Next: molybdenum (Mo)

Etymology

After Niobe, because of the element's affinity with tantalum.

Noun

niobium (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. a metallic chemical element (symbol Nb) with an atomic number of 41.

Synonyms

• columbium (in metallurgy; not in scientific use)
• dianium (obsolete)

Derived terms

Derived terms

ferroniobium niobate niobian niobic niobite

niobium carbide niobium chloride niobium pentachloride niobous niocalite

Related terms

• Niobe

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: niobium (af)
• Albanian: niob (sq)
• Arabic: نيوبيوم (ar) (niyúbyum) m
• Armenian: նիոբիում (hy) (niobium)
• Asturian: niobiu (ast) m
• Basque: niobioa (eu)
• Belarusian: нiобiй (be) (nióbij) m
• Breton: niobiom (br)
• Bulgarian: ниобий (bg) (nióbij) m
• Catalan: niobi (ca)
• Chinese: 鈮 (ní)
• Cornish: nyobyum (kw)
• Czech: niob (cs)
• Danish: niobium (da)
• Dutch: niobium (nl) n
• Esperanto: niobo (eo), niobio (eo)
• Estonian: nioobium (et)
• Faroese: niobium (fo)
• Finnish: niobi (fi), niobium (fi)
• French: niobium (fr) m
• Galician: niobio (gl)
• Georgian: ნიობიუმი (ka) (niobiumi)
• German: Niob (de) n
• Greek: νιόβιο (el) (nióvio) n
• Hebrew: ניוביום (he) (niyobyum)
• Hindi: काशातु (hi) (kaashaatu)
• Hungarian: nióbium (hu)
• Icelandic: nióbín (is)
• Interlingua: niobium (ia)
• Irish: niaibiam (ga)
• Italian: niobio (it) m
• Japanese: ニオブ (ja) (niobu), 鈮 (ja)

• Kazakh: ниобий (kk) (niobiy)
• Korean: 니오브 (ko) (niobeu), 니오븀 (ko) (niobyum), 콜럼븀 (ko) (kolleombyum), 나이오븀 (ko) (naiobyum)
• Latvian: niobijs (lv)
• Lithuanian: niobis (lt)
• Macedonian: ниобиум (mk) (nióbium)
• Malay: niobium (ms)
• Maltese: niobju (mt)
• Mongolian: ниоби (mn) (niobi)
• Norwegian: niob (no)
• Polish: niob (pl) m
• Portuguese: nióbio (pt) m
• Romanian: niobiu (ro) n
• Russian: ниобий (ru) (nióbij) m
• Scottish Gaelic: niòibiam (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ниобиj (sh) m, ниобиjум (sh) m

  Roman: niobij (sh), niobijum (sh)

• Slovak: niób (sk)
• Slovene: niobij (sl)
• Spanish: niobio (es) m
• Swedish: niob (sv) n
• Tajik: niobi' (tg) (niobi')
• Tamil: களங்கன் (ta) (kaLangan)
• Thai: ไนโอเบี (th) (naiōbiam)
• Turkish: niyobyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: нiобiй (uk) (nióbij) m
• Uzbek: ниобий (uz) (niobiy)
• Vietnamese: niobi (vi)
• Welsh: niobiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: niobium (fy)

See also

• columbite
• columbite-tantalite
• coltan
• euxenite
• pyrochlore

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
Nb	Previous: zirkonium (Zr)
	Next: molybdeen (Mo)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

niobium n (uncountable)

1. niobium

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Noun

niobium

1. niobium

Declension

Declension of niobium (type paperi) singular plural nominative niobium niobiumit genitive niobiumin niobiumien niobiumeiden niobiumeitten partitive niobiumia niobiumeita niobiumeja accusative niobium niobiumin niobiumit inessive niobiumissa niobiumeissa elative niobiumista niobiumeista illative niobiumiin niobiumeihin adessive niobiumilla niobiumeilla ablative niobiumilta niobiumeilta allative niobiumille niobiumeille essive niobiumina niobiumeina translative niobiumiksi niobiumeiksi instructive – niobiumein abessive niobiumitta niobiumeitta comitative – niobiumeineen

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French

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /njɔ.bjɔm/

Noun

niobium m (usually uncountable)

1. niobium

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

niobium (genitive niobiī); n, second declension

1. niobium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	niobium	niobia
genitive	niobiī	niobiōrum
dative	niobiō	niobiīs
accusative	niobium	niobia
ablative	niobiō	niobiīs
vocative	niobium	niobia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈɲoː˨bjɔ˧m]

Noun

niobium n

1. (uncountable) niobium
2. A part of niobium

Inflection

Declension of niobium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	niobium	niobia	niobieke	niobiekes
Genitive	niobiums	niobia	niobiekes	niobiekes
Locative	niobieës	niobieëser	niobieëske	niobieëskes
Dative¹	niobiumme	—	niobieke	—
Accusative¹	niobium	—	niobieke	—

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
Nb	Previous: zirkonium (Zr)
	Next: molibdenum (Mo)

Etymology

From English niobium, from Niobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [niobiom], [niobiəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

niobium

1. niobium (chemical element)