Tantalum Synonyms

tăntə-ləm
A hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ta
  2. atomic number 73

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Tantalum Sentence Examples

  • Chemically related to vanadium are the two elements tantalum and columbium or niobium.

  • Tantalum has in recent years been turned to economic service, being employed, in the same manner as tungsten, for the production of the filaments employed in incandescent electric lighting.

  • It is usually found associated with tantalum, the chief minerals containing these two elements being tantalite, columbite, fergusonite and yttrotantalite; it is also a constituent of pyrochlor, euxenite and samarskite.

  • Of minerals containing this element mention may be made of cassiterite or tinstone, Sn02, tin pyrites, Cu 4 SnS 4 + (Fe,Zn) 2 SnS 4; the metal also occurs in some epidotes, and in company with columbium, tantalum and other metals.

  • Ekeberg discovered an element, tantalum, in some Swedish yttrium minerals.

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