Thulium

Definition: Thulium

Thulium

Noun

1. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime.

Etymology: Thulium \Thu"li*um\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Thule.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Chemical element:atomic number 69. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	An element of the rare earth family of metals. It has the atomic symbol Tm, atomic number 69, and atomic weight 168.93. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A chemical element, in the periodic table thulium has the symbol Tm and atom number 69. It is a lanthanide.

Named after Thule, an ancient Roman name for a mythical country in the far north, perhaps Scandinavia. See also Ytterby.

External Link:
Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division: Periodic Table - Thulium

http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/69.html

Periodic Table

Synonym: Thulium

Synonym: atomic number 69 (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thulium

English words defined with "thulium": Thulia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Thulium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (thulium).

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Language		Translations for "thulium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tulium. (various references)

Arabic		‏الثليوم عنصر فلزي (thallium). (various references)

Chinese		銩 (bay, cove). (various references)

Danish		thulium. (various references)

Dutch		thullium, thulium. (various references)

Esperanto		tulio. (various references)

French		thulium. (various references)

German		Thulium. (various references)

Greek		θούλιο. (various references)

Hungarian		túlium. (various references)

Italian		tullio, tulio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ツェツェ蠅 (short speech at a dinner, statement, table, table center, table charge, table cloth, table cover, table manners, table talk, table tennis, table top, table wine, tablespoon, take back, takeaway, take-off, takeout, take-over, take-over bid, take-over zone, tape, taper, taping, taste, thesis, tree, tsetse fly, tuna, Tutankamen, two-handed sword). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ツリウム . (various references)

Pig Latin		uliumthay

Portuguese		túlio. (various references)

Russian		тулий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tulijum. (various references)

Spanish		tulio. (various references)

Turkish		tülyum. (various references)

Ukranian		тулій. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thulium": thuliums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thulium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chhunlim, Cthulhu, Ghulum, Thulean, thullium, Touloum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "thulium" (pronounced 'Thu"li*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-l-m-t-u-u"
	-1 letter: tumuli.
	-2 letters: hilum.
	-3 letters: hilt, litu, milt.
	-4 letters: him, hit, hum, hut, lit, lum, mil, mut, til, tui, ulu.
	-5 letters: hi, hm, it, li, mi, mu, ti, uh, um, ut.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-l-m-t-u-u"
	+1 letter: thuliums.
	+2 letters: multihued, multihull.
	+3 letters: multihulls.
	+4 letters: multiauthor.
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