different between radium vs ionium

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

English

Noun

ionium (uncountable)

1. (physics) The isotope of thorium ²³⁰₉₀Th