thallium
See also: Thallium
English
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Tl | |
| Previous: mercury (Hg) | |
| Next: lead (Pb) | |
Etymology
Coined based on Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós, “green branch”) (after the color of the radiation spectra), + -ium.
Pronunciation
- enPR: thăl'ēəm, IPA(key): /ˈθæliəm/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æliəm
Noun
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, archived from the original on 27 January 2021:
- 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.
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- A single atom of this element.
Derived terms
- eka-thallium
- thall-, thallo-
- thallane
- thallic
- thalliferous
- thallious
- thallium glass
- thallium green
- thallium hydroxide
- thallium line
- thallium monofluoride
- thallium monoxide
- thallium oxide
- thallium sulfate, thallium sulphate
- thallium sulfide, thallium sulphide
- thallium trioxide
- thallium-activated
- thallous
Related terms
Translations
chemical element
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See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.ljɔm/
Audio (file)
Descendants
- → Turkish: talyum
Further reading
- “thallium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Tl | |
| Previous: hydrargyrum (Hg) | |
| Next: plumbum (Pb) | |
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtʰal.li.um/, [ˈt̪ʰälːʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtal.li.um/, [ˈt̪älːium]
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | thallium | thallia |
| Genitive | thalliī | thalliōrum |
| Dative | thalliō | thalliīs |
| Accusative | thallium | thallia |
| Ablative | thalliō | thalliīs |
| Vocative | thallium | thallia |
Limburgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈðɑ˦ʎɔ˧m]
Inflection
Declension of thallium
| Root singular | Root plural | Diminutive singular | Diminutive plural | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | thallium | thallia | thallieke | thalliekes |
| Genitive | thalliums | thallia | thalliekes | thalliekes |
| Locative | thallieës | thallieëser | thallieëske | thallieëskes |
| Dative¹ | thalliumme | — | thallieke | — |
| Accusative¹ | thallium | — | thallieke | — |
| ¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead. | ||||
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