iridium
English
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| Chemical element | |
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| Ir | |
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Etymology
[edit]From international scientific vocabulary, from the New Latin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: ĭrĭd'ēəm, IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɪd.i.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]iridium (countable and uncountable, plural iridiums)
- (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 75:
- Iridium is extremely rare on the surface of the earth but much more common in meteorites.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]chemical element
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Afrikaans
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| Ir | |
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Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]iridium (uncountable)
Czech
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| Ir | |
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| Next: platina (Pt) | |
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iridium n
Declension
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]iridium n
References
[edit]- “iridium” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| Ir | |
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Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]iridium n (uncountable)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism (see English iridium).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iridium
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of iridium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | iridium | iridiumit | |
| genitive | iridiumin | iridiumien | |
| partitive | iridiumia | iridiumeja | |
| illative | iridiumiin | iridiumeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | iridium | iridiumit | |
| accusative | nom. | iridium | iridiumit |
| gen. | iridiumin | ||
| genitive | iridiumin | iridiumien | |
| partitive | iridiumia | iridiumeja | |
| inessive | iridiumissa | iridiumeissa | |
| elative | iridiumista | iridiumeista | |
| illative | iridiumiin | iridiumeihin | |
| adessive | iridiumilla | iridiumeilla | |
| ablative | iridiumilta | iridiumeilta | |
| allative | iridiumille | iridiumeille | |
| essive | iridiumina | iridiumeina | |
| translative | iridiumiksi | iridiumeiksi | |
| abessive | iridiumitta | iridiumeitta | |
| instructive | — | iridiumein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “iridium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iridium m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “iridium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| Ir | |
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Etymology
[edit]New Latin iridium is from Classical Latin iris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”), because of the bright colour of many of the element's salts.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /iːˈri.di.um/, [iːˈrɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈri.di.um/, [iˈriːd̪ium]
Noun
[edit]īridium n (genitive īridiī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | īridium | īridia |
| genitive | īridiī | īridiōrum |
| dative | īridiō | īridiīs |
| accusative | īridium | īridia |
| ablative | īridiō | īridiīs |
| vocative | īridium | īridia |
Limburgish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iridium n
- (uncountable) iridium
- A part of iridium
Malay
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| Ir | |
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Etymology
[edit]From English iridium, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris) -ium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iridium
- iridium (chemical element)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”) + -ium, presumably via New Latin iridium.
Noun
[edit]iridium n (definite singular iridiumet, uncountable)
References
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris) + -ium, presumably via New Latin iridium.
Noun
[edit]iridium n (definite singular iridiumet, uncountable)
References
[edit]- “iridium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]iridium n (uncountable)
- Alternative form of iridiu
Swedish
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| Ir | |
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| Next: platina (Pt) | |
Noun
[edit]iridium n
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | iridium | iridiums |
| definite | iridiumet | iridiumets | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | iridium | iridiums |
| definite | iridiet | iridiets | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | iridium | iridiums |
| definite | iridium | iridiums | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
References
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