different between oxygen vs erbium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French oxygène (originally in the form principe oxygène, a variant of principe oxigine ‘acidifying principle’, suggested by Lavoisier), from Ancient Greek ???? (oxús, “sharp”) + ????? (génos, “birth”), referring to oxygen's supposed role in the formation of acids.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k's?j?n, IPA^(key): /??ks?d??n/

Noun

oxygen (countable and uncountable, plural oxygens)

2. The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas.

   Hypernym: chalcogen

3. Molecular oxygen (O₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
4. (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
5. (countable) An atom of this element.
   • 2013, Spencer L. Seager, Michael R. Slabaugh, Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry (page 479)

     Look first at any structure to see if there is a carbon with two oxygens attached. Hemiacetals, hemiketals, acetals, and ketals are all alike in that regard.

6. (figuratively) A condition or environment in which something can thrive.

   Silence is the oxygen of shame.

   They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.

Synonyms

• sourstuff
• E948 when used as a packaging gas

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ??????????? (aukhcigyang)

Translations

References

• Oxygen on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• ozone

Danish

Noun

oxygen n (singular definite oxygenet, not used in plural form)

1. oxygen

   Synonym: ilt

German

Adjective

oxygen

1. (chemistry) oxygenic

   Antonym: anoxygen

Declension

Related terms

• Oxygen

Swedish

Noun

oxygen n

1. (archaic, strictly sciences) oxygen

   Synonym: syre

English

Etymology

After Ytterby, Sweden, +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ûr'b??m, IPA^(key): /????bi?m/

Noun

erbium (countable and uncountable, plural erbiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• erbium oxide
• erbium trichloride

Related terms

• erbia
• terbium
• ytterbium
• yttrium

Translations

Anagrams

• imbrue, imbuer, murbie

Afrikaans

Noun

erbium (uncountable)

1. erbium

Derived terms

• erbies

Czech

Noun

erbium n

1. erbium (metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 68)

Danish

Noun

erbium

1. erbium
   • 1874, Beretning ..., page 29

     ... at Thorium maaske bør betragtes som fireatomet, Cer, Lanthan, Didym, Erbium og Yttrium derimod som treatomige.

   • 2016, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, DNA, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     Erbium, stoffet med atomnummer otteogtres og atomtegn Er.

   • 1881, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi: samt disse videnskabers anvendelse ...

     ... Vanadium, Antimon, Tantal, Erbium, Ytterbium, Cerium, ...

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed. Named after Ytterby in Sweden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.bi??m/
• Hyphenation: er?bi?um
• Rhymes: -?rbi?m

Noun

erbium n (uncountable)

1. erbium

Related terms

• terbium
• ytterbium
• yttrium

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

erbium (genitive erbiumi, partitive erbiumi or erbiumit)

1. erbium

Declension

Finnish

Noun

erbium

1. erbium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bj?m/

Noun

erbium m (uncountable)

1. erbium

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rbijum]
• Hyphenation: er?bi?um
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

erbium (usually uncountable, plural erbiumok)

1. erbium (chemical element)

Declension

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?er.bi.um/, [??rbi???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?er.bi.um/, [??rbium]

Noun

erbium n (genitive erbi?); second declension

1. erbium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?æ??bj??m]

Noun

erbium n

1. (uncountable) erbium
2. A part of erbium

Inflection

Malay

Etymology

From English erbium, from Swedish Ytterby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?(r)biom], [?(r)bi?m]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

erbium

1. erbium (chemical element)

Slovak

Etymology

From the Swedish town of Ytterby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rbium/

Noun

erbium n (genitive singular erbia, declension pattern of mesto)

1. erbium (element)

Declension

References

• erbium in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rb??m/

Noun

erbium c

1. erbium

Declension