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The most electropositive and alkaline metal
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caesium
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It had a caesium 137 concentration of only 4 becquerels per kilogram. ▪ The caesium chloride lattice is thus said to have 8:8 coordination. ▪ The caesium chloride structure, for example, consists of a cubic structure of cations ...
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Caesium or cesium is a chemical element with symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28.5 °C (83.3 °F), which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at or near room temperature ...
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n. a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal [syn: cesium , Cs , atomic number 55 ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
caesium \caesium\, Caesium \C[ae]"si*um\, n. [NL., from L. caesius bluish gray.] (Chem.) A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, ...
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