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Resistant to corrosion and tarnishing
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chromium
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metallic element, 1807, with metallic elemental suffix -ium + French chrome (Fourcroy and Haüy), from Greek chroma "color" (see chrome ; also see chroma ). So called for its colorful compounds. Related: Chromite .
WordNet
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n. a hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing [syn: Cr , atomic number 24 ]
Wikipedia
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Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 . It is a steely-grey, lustrous , hard and brittle metal which takes a high polish, resists tarnishing, and has a high melting point. The name of the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But just as uncertain is whether anyone needs to take chromium at all. ▪ But, as with chromium picolinate, the stars of various supplements rise and fall in the media faster than Hollywood careers. ▪ He smelled the bitter fragrance ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Cr) with an atomic number of 24.
Usage examples of chromium.
When sulphuric acid is used as the assistant along with the bichrome, then there is formed on the wool fibre a deposit of chromic acid and chromium oxide, and this exerts an oxidising effect on the colouring matter or dye-stuff, which in some cases, as the Alizarine Blue, Alizarine Yellow, etc.
His photographs of sexual acts, of sections of automobile radiator grilles and instrument panels, conjunctions between elbow and chromium window-sill, vulva and instrument binnacle, summed up the possibilities of a new logic created by these multiplying artefacts, the codes of a new marriage of sensation and possibility.
The fragments found later by Dawson and Woodward together were not soaked in potassium dichromate and hence had no chromium in them.
Unless he had said something, I figured, not even Inototsu was crafty enough to connect me with the consignments of hexavalent chromium.
He certainly knew both that the hexavalent chromium came from there and that Inototsu was my biological father.
Not only that, I paid him a straight twenty percent commission on the hexavalent chromium business.
With claws clutching the chromium surface of the three-foot tube, Jark began to tug the machine clear of the wall.
The residue may consist of unremoved silica, and oxides of tantalum, niobium, and, perhaps, chromium.
Aluminum was added to an oxide of another, less reactive metal, such as chromium, manganese, vanadium, tungsten, or molybdenum.
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.
Inside was almost the same photo: me in tweed jacket, machine washable at number five trousers, cor-blimey hat and two-tone shoes, one of them resting on the chromium of an Alfa Spider convertible.
Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc and Cadmium, Mercury, Tin, Lead, Bismuth, Antimony, Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Uranium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, the Platinum Group.
The room was pin-neat, minimally furnished, scented with perfume, and hung with art posters in chromium frames.
When sulphuric acid is used as the assistant along with the bichrome, then there is formed on the wool fibre a deposit of chromic acid and chromium oxide, and this exerts an oxidising effect on the colouring matter or dye-stuff, which in some cases, as the Alizarine Blue, Alizarine Yellow, etc.
All bore an overabundance of shining metal resembling chromium which was arranged into various shapes like jet tubes, stubby wings or even ancient exhaust pipes.