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Metal named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow
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iridium
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n. a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium [syn: Ir , atomic number 77 ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Like Green's compound, this iridium compound contains two hydrogen atoms that can be eliminated by light.
Usage examples of iridium.
The amount of iridium and the fact that some of the shocked quartz has double lamellae, however, more strongly argue for an extraterrestrial source.
Horn pens, tortoise-shell pens, nibs of diamond or ruby imbedded in tortoise shell, nibs of ruby set in fine gold, nibs of rhodium and of iridium imbedded in gold,-- all have been adopted at different times, but most of them have been found too costly for general adoption.
And, indeed, deep in the crust of the illuminated globe appeared a vague network of vanadiums, chromiums, and platinums, the platinum group including osmium and iridium.
The screener canisters were loaded with millimeter-sized iridium balls, unlike the fine powder the dusters carried.
This is pressure stamped under vacuum to produce ingots, which are electroplated with iridium to prevent corrosion and then warehoused.
Ferrol found quiet satisfaction in the feet that the dust, while loaded with strange and exotic silicates, contained not a single scrap of gold, platmium, or iridium.
And, indeed, deep in the crust of the illuminated globe appeared a vague network of vanadiums, chromiums, and platinums, the platinum group including osmium and iridium.
He insisted that the iridium had been deposited by volcanic action even while conceding in a newspaper interview that he had no actual evidence of it.
Like a monstrous cannonball, the titanic mass of iridium, more than a mile in diameter, ascends straight up through a billion tons of debris, the decimated seafloor crumbling within the vacuum of the rising colossus's wake.
Sometimes it was as if he were walking on the remains of organic machines—hybrid beings, half-animal, arisen from the union of the living and the nonliving, of reason and unreason—and sometimes it was as if he were bringing his iridium boots down on weirdly spreading gems, precious and impure, partially clouded due to interpenetrations and metamorphoses.
About revolts and secessions in the colony worlds, or the price of iridium, or inflation of the crown-"