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A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties
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molybdenum
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Molybdenum is a chemical element with symbol Mo and atomic number 42. The name is from Neo-Latin molybdaenum , from Ancient Greek , meaning lead , since its ores were confused with lead ores. Molybdenum minerals have been known throughout history, but the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molybdenum \Mol`yb*de"num\, n. [NL.: cf. F. molybd[`e]ne. See Molybdena .] (Chem.) A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible ...
WordNet
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n. a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel [syn: Mo , atomic number 42 ]
Wiktionary
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n. A metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Mo) with an atomic number of 42.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metallic element, 1816, from molybdena , used generally for lead-like minerals, from Greek molybdos "lead," also "black graphite," related to Latin plumbum "lead" (see plumb (n.)), and like it probably borrowed from a lost Mediterranean language, perhaps ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A similar argument applies to the 900 curies of molybdenum and its breakdown into technetium. ▪ Its minerals collection also houses gold, silver, titanium minerals, nickel and molybdenum . ▪ The molybdenum blue can be estimated ...
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This was the other time when we met, when we were at that conference in Caracas, the one about taking molybdenum and beryllium out of seawater.
Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc and Cadmium, Mercury, Tin, Lead, Bismuth, Antimony, Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Uranium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, the Platinum Group.
A few pounds of molybdenum, some wire-drawing apparatus, a few ounces of scandium and special glass-blowing machinery.
As the formula, which we have developed and published here, shows, it is an organic product of substitution in which the styrolene radical and the molybdenum metal occupy the six vertices of a benzine carbide.
As everyone knows today, this compound is formed by the substitution of three atoms of molybdenum and three styrolene radicals in the benzene nucleus.
All molybdenum compounds are converted into the trioxide by boiling with nitric acid.
Sample contains small amts manganese, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, and silicon, some nickel, zirconium, and tungsten with admixture chromium, molybdenum, and vanadium.
Elements that include barium, antimony, cobalt, molybdenum and vanadium that are obtained from toxic minerals such as stibnite, barytine, patronite and mispickel.
That Molybdenum and that soldier are going to do all this, and where are they going to buy these coprocessor things?
When Matthew noted that the influx had come from the Mariana Islands and the Scottish highlands, where large deposits of deutronium and molybdenum had recently been located, and some resettled from the disastrous colonies of Bremer, he was equally ready to cancel that idea if the initial interviews proved negative.
And I ran a tap in on one of your main mines, and it's all laced with impurities: vanadium and molybdenum.
And I ran a tap in on one of your main mines, and it’s all laced with impurities: vanadium and molybdenum.
The verbal outpouring was to be on “The Interdiffusion of Molybdenum by the Renwick Process,” and its delivery was scheduled for the Regal Room of the Park-Ritz Hotel, where the cheapest room, even in depression times, was seven dollars a night.
Their reaction showed indirectly the presence of metallic iron in large quantities with traces of carbon, molybdenum- Steel!
Their reaction showed indirectly the presence of metallic iron in large quantities with traces of carbon, molybdenum Steel!