thallium
See also: Thallium
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Tl | |
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Coined based on Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós, “green branch”) (after the color of the radiation spectra), + -ium.
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thallium (countable and uncountable, plural thalliums)
- A metallic chemical element (symbol Tl) with atomic number 81: a gray post-transition metal that discolors when exposed to air.
- 2021 January 27, Li You, “Northwest China Reports Thallium Pollution in Yangtze Tributary”, in Bibek Bhandari, editor, Sixth Tone[1], archived from the original on 27 January 2021[2]:
- Environmental authorities in Lüeyang County, Shaanxi province, discovered excessive levels of thallium in two of the Jialing River’s upstream tributaries on Jan. 20, according to a statement Monday. The concentration of thallium that day was 170% higher than the standard for Qingni River, one of the upstream tributaries bordering Gansu province.
- A single atom of this element.
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thallium
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Tl | |
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thallium n (uncountable)
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thallium m (uncountable)
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- → Turkish: talyum
Further reading edit
- “thallium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Tl | |
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Next: plumbum (Pb) |
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtʰal.li.um/, [ˈt̪ʰälːʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtal.li.um/, [ˈt̪älːium]
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thallium n (genitive thalliī); second declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | thallium | thallia |
Genitive | thalliī | thalliōrum |
Dative | thalliō | thalliīs |
Accusative | thallium | thallia |
Ablative | thalliō | thalliīs |
Vocative | thallium | thallia |
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thallium n
- (uncountable) thallium
- A part of thallium