different between radiation vs radium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationis.Morphologically radiate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.di.?e?.??n/
• (some US dialects) IPA^(key): /?a?.di.?a?.??n/

Noun

radiation (countable and uncountable, plural radiations)

1. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.

   heat radiation

   • 2016, Donald R. Prothero, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals (page 136)

     The second [canid group] is the radiation of dogs in South America that began when the first canids arrived about 3 Ma, after crossing the Panama land bridge (Fig. 5.4).

2. The process of radiating waves or particles.
3. The transfer of energy via radiation (as opposed to convection or conduction).
4. Radioactive energy.

Related terms

• radiate

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• nucleomitophobia

Anagrams

• antiradio

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.dja.sj??/

Noun

radiation f (plural radiations)

1. radiation (all meaning)

Related terms

• radier

Further reading

• “radiation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French radium, from rad(ioactif) (“radioactive”) +? -ium (suffix used to form the names of metallic elements).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??e?.d?.?m/
• (General American) enPR: r?d'??m, IPA^(key): /??e?.di.?m/
• Hyphenation: rad?i?um

Noun

radium (countable and uncountable, plural radiums)

1. The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal.
2. (textiles, dated) A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn, often with a shiny appearance.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

radium (third-person singular simple present radiums, present participle radiuming, simple past and past participle radiumed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium.

   Synonym: radiumize

Derived terms

• radiumed (adjective)

References

Further reading

• radium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Radium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry’s online periodic table

Anagrams

• marudi

Afrikaans

Noun

radium (uncountable)

1. radium

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ra??um]
• Hyphenation: ra?dium

Noun

radium n

1. radium

Declension

Further reading

• radium in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• radium in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

radium

1. radium

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

radium n (uncountable)

1. radium

Finnish

Noun

radium

1. radium

Declension

Anagrams

• dumari

French

Etymology

Formed from radio(actif) + -ium; cf. New Latin radium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.dj?m/

Noun

radium m (uncountable)

1. radium

Further reading

• “radium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

The sense of the element came from the French creation radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra.di.um/, [?räd?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.di.um/, [?r??d?ium]

Noun

radium n (genitive radi?); second declension

1. (New Latin, Scientific Latin) radium
2. accusative singular of radius

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Malay

Etymology

From English radium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [radiom], [radi?m], [redi?m]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

radium

1. radium (chemical element)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French radium.

Noun

radium n (definite singular radiumet, uncountable)

1. radium, chemical element with symbol Ra

References

• “radium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “radium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French radium.

Noun

radium n (definite singular radiumet, uncountable)

1. radium, chemical element with symbol Ra

References

• “radium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Noun

radium n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of radiu