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Definition: Thallium |
ThalliumNoun1. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Thallium \Thal"li*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression young or green shoot or branch, twig. So called from characteristic bright green line in its spectrum.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Industry | Obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | Chemical element:atomic number 81. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A metallic element resembling lead in physical properties; the metal is silvery-white, but turns bluish-gray in air. Symbol, Tl. Occurs in crooksite, lorandite, and hutchinsonite. It is also present in pyrites and is recovered from the roasting of this ore in the manufacture of sulfuric acid and from the smelting of lead and zinc ores. Used in low-melting glasses, photocells, and infrared detectors. (references) |
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Synonym: ThalliumSynonym: atomic number 81 (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Thallium |
| English words defined with "thallium": Crookes ♦ Sir William Crookes ♦ Thallic, Thallous ♦ William Crookes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thallium": thallium activated sodium iodide detector, Thallium Radioisotopes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Thallium" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (thallium, waist, waistline), French (thallium), German (thallium). |
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Health | A more complex stress test involves picturing the blood flow pattern in the heart muscle during peak exercise and after rest. A tiny amount of a radioisotope, usually thallium, is injected into a vein at peak exercise and is taken up by normal heart muscle. (references) | |
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| "Thallium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Thallium" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.06% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "thallium": thallium activated sodium iodide detector ♦ Thallium Radioisotopes. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thallium stress test | 68 |
thallium | 57 |
thallium scan | 10 |
test thallium | 8 |
stress thallium | 6 |
poisoning thallium | 5 |
adenosine thallium | 4 |
thallium treadmill | 3 |
persantine stress test thallium | 3 |
adenosine stress test thallium | 3 |
201 thallium | 3 |
persantine test thallium | 2 |
density of thallium | 2 |
persantine thallium | 2 |
result stress test thallium | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "thallium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | talium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الثليوم عنصر فلزي (thulium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鎉 , 鉈 , ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | thallium (obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore), talje (block and fall, block and falls, chain block, chain hoist, hoist, pulley tackle, purchase, rigging of blocks, tackle, waist, waistline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | thallium (obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore, waist, waistline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | taliumo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | miðja (average, mean, middle, waist, waistline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thallium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | mul (waist, waistline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Thallium (obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θάλλιο (obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tallium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tallio (obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | タバコモザイク病 (sound like tapping a soft belly, tab, tablet, tabloid, taboo, talc, talisman, tobacco mosaic, tough, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | タリウ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | pinggang (waist, waistline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | taya (waist, waistline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alliumthay tálio (obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore). (various references) таллий. (various references) talijum. (various references) talio (obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore), cintura (middle, waist, waistline). (various references) ธาตุโลหะสีขาว สัญลักษ"์ทางเคมีคือ TI. (various references) talyum, bel (come, grubber, loin, loins, middle of the back, paddle, spade, waist, waistline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thallium": thalliums. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "thallium": prothallium. (additional references) | |
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"Thallium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hallim, thaliana, thallism, thullium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thallium" (pronounced tha"lēum) |
| 5 | -a" l ē u m | gallium. |
| 4 | -l ē u m | beryllium, helium, linoleum, nobelium, petroleum, psyllium. |
| 3 | -ē u m | alluvium, ammonium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, compendium, condominium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, fermium, geranium, gonium, gymnasium, hafnium, harmonium, Herbarium, holmium, honorarium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, lithium, magnesium, medium, millennium, minium, moratorium, myocardium, nephridium, neptunium, niobium, opium, opprobrium, osmium, palladium, pandemonium, paramecium, planetarium, Plasmodium, plutonium, podium, polonium, potassium, premium, presidium, promethium, protium, radium, requiem, rhodium, selenium, sodium, stadium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tedium, tellurium, thorium, titanium, tritium, uranium, vanadium, yttrium, zirconium. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-l-l-m-t-u" | |
-2 letters: allium, hamuli, mullah, thalli, thulia, ultima. | |
-3 letters: ahull, haulm, hilum, laith, lathi, maill, miaul, mulla, thill. | |
-4 letters: alit, alum, hail, hall, halm, halt, haul, haut, hila, hill, hilt, hula, hull, lath, lati, lilt, lima, litu, mail, mall, malt, math, maul, maut, mill, milt, mull, tail, tali, tall, till. | |
-5 letters: ail, aim, ait, all, alt, ami, amu, ham, hat, him, hit, hum, hut, ill, lam, lat, lit, lum, mat, mil, mut, tam, tau, til, tui, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-l-l-m-t-u" | |
+1 letter: thalliums. | |
+2 letters: callithump, multiflash. | |
+3 letters: azimuthally, callithumps, prothallium. | |
+4 letters: multichannel. | |
+5 letters: callithumpian, humiliatingly, multichannels, multihospital, rheumatically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 61 6C 6C 69 75 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... .- .-.. .-.. .. ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h a l l i u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0061 006C 006C 0069 0075 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5474677878758779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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