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Meaning of "niobium" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NIOBIUM

From New Latin, from Niobe (daughter of Tantalus), so named because it occurred in tantalite.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NIOBIUM

niobium  [naɪˈəʊbɪəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NIOBIUM

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Niobium is a noun.
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WHAT DOES NIOBIUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Niobium

Niobium, formerly columbium, is a chemical element with the symbol Nb and atomic number 41. It is a soft, grey, ductile transition metal, which is often found in the pyrochlore mineral, the main commercial source for niobium, and columbite. The name comes from Greek mythology: Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. Niobium has physical and chemical properties similar to those of the element tantalum, and the two are therefore difficult to distinguish. The English chemist Charles Hatchett reported a new element similar to tantalum in 1801 and named it columbium. In 1809, the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston wrongly concluded that tantalum and columbium were identical. The German chemist Heinrich Rose determined in 1846 that tantalum ores contain a second element, which he named niobium. In 1864 and 1865, a series of scientific findings clarified that niobium and columbium were the same element, and for a century both names were used interchangeably. Niobium was officially adopted as the name of the element in 1949, but the name columbium remains in current use in metallurgy in the United States.

Definition of niobium in the English dictionary

The definition of niobium in the dictionary is a ductile white superconductive metallic element that occurs principally in columbite and tantalite: used in steel alloys. Symbol: Nb; atomic no: 41; atomic wt: 92.90638; valency: 2, 3, or 5; relative density: 8.57; melting pt: 2469±10°C; boiling pt: 4744°C Former name: columbium.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NIOBIUM


aerobium
ɛəˈrəʊbɪəm
anaerobium
ˌæneəˈrəʊbɪəm
cambium
ˈkæmbɪəm
coenobium
siːˈnəʊbɪəm
columbium
kəˈlʌmbɪəm
dendrobium
dɛnˈdrəʊbɪəm
epilobium
ˌepɪˈləʊbɪəm
erbium
ˈɜːbɪəm
euphorbium
juːˈfɔːbɪəm
labium
ˈleɪbɪəm
procambium
prəʊˈkæmbɪəm
rhizobium
raɪˈzəʊbɪəm
stibium
ˈstɪbɪəm
terbium
ˈtɜːbɪəm
ununbium
əˈnʌnbɪəm
ytterbium
ɪˈtɜːbɪəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NIOBIUM

ninon
ninth
ninth chord
ninth-grader
ninthly
Ninus
niobate
Niobe
Niobean
niobic
niobite
niobous
Niort
nip
nip and tuck
nip curn
nip in the bud
nipa
nipcheese

WORDS THAT END LIKE NIOBIUM

aluminium
aquarium
at a premium
auditorium
Belgium
calcium
consortium
cork cambium
equilibrium
gymnasium
lithium
magnesium
millennium
podium
potassium
premium
sodium
stadium
symposium
titanium

Synonyms and antonyms of niobium in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «niobium» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NIOBIUM

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The translations of niobium from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «niobium» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

niobio
570 millions of speakers

English

niobium
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नाइओबियम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النيوبيوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ниобия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nióbio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নাইত্তবিয়ামপদার্থ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

niobium
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Niobium
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Niob
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ニオブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

니오븀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Niobium
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chất ni op
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நியோபியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नायोबियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

niyobyum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

niobio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niobu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ніобію
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

niobiu
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

νιοβίου
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

niobium
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

niob
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

niob
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of niobium

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NIOBIUM»

The term «niobium» is regularly used and occupies the 69.197 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NIOBIUM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about niobium

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIOBIUM»

Discover the use of niobium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to niobium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Extractive Metallurgy of Niobium
The book also explains how to liberate the metal from its intermediates and describes the physico-chemical principles involved.
C. K. Gupta, A. K. Suri, 1993
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Chemistry of Tantalum and Niobium Fluoride Compounds
In Chemistry of Tantalum and Niobium Fluoride Compounds, the author draws on thirty years' experience to produce the first ever monograph to systemize and summarize the data available on tantalum and niobium fluoride compounds.
Anatoly Agulyansky, 2004
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High Temperature Oxidation Behavior of the ...
Niobium based super alloys are necessary to fill the rising need in the aerospace industry for materials that can perform for extended times extreme environments at elevated temperatures near the melting point of nickel.
Benedict I. Portillo, 2008
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Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety: Chemical, ...
Occurrence and Uses Niobium (Nb) is found together with other elements including titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), tungsten (W), thorium (Th) and uranium (U) in ores such as tantalite-columbitc, fergusonite, samarskite, pyrochlorc, koppite and ...
Jeanne Mager Stellman, 1998
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A Superconducting Investigation of Nanoscale Mechanics in ...
4.3.1 Vibrational Modes of a Niobium Dimer With the HG and LG state characterized as being a dimer placed either symmetrically or asymmetrically with respect to the two leads, niobium nanowires clearly present unique advantages in terms ...
Brandon Donehoo, 2008
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Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference
niobium metal: Silmet in Estonia, Donetsk in Ukraine, and Ulva in Kazakhstan. According to Roskill Information Services, ca. 500 tonnes per year of high-purity niobium pentoxide is used worldwide, mainly in the production of capacitors, ...
François Cardarelli, 2008
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Single crystal-large grain niobium technology: International ...
Several new frontier technologies and applications are expected to be evolving in coming years as the cost of SRF technology comes down because the Large Grain--Single Crystal Niobium Technology is maturing very rapidly.
Ganapati Rao Myneni, Tadeu Carneiro, Andrew Michael Hutton, 2007
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Surface Study of Niobium for Superconducting Radio Frequency ...
It might be due to that the annealing at higher temperature results in a surface oxide layer consisting primarily of metallic suboxide [1, 4, 17] and high concentration of interstitial oxygen at the niobium/oxide interface [49], which may reduce the ...
Hui Tian, 2008
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On the Specific Gravities of Niobium and Tantalum Pentoxides ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Maurice Allison Lamme, 2012
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Inorganic Chemistry
2 Niobium and Tantalum [3] 2.1 Elemental Niobium and Tantalum Occurrence Niobium and tantalum are found together in nature mainly as iron niobate, (Fe, Mn)(NbO3)2, and iron tantalate. (Fe,Mn)(TaO,)2. Depending on the relative amounts ...
Egon Wiberg, Nils Wiberg, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIOBIUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term niobium is used in the context of the following news items.
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Luisa Moreno Explains Why Metallurgy Is So Important in Critical …
TGR: In July 2011, you produced a tantalum and niobium primer for Jacob Securities Inc. Reading through that report again, little has changed. «InvestorIdeas.com, Jul 15»
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Allegheny Technologies Inc (ATI) Files Form 4 Insider Buying …
The Company's products include titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, zirconium, hafnium and niobium, advanced ... «Insider Trading Report, Jul 15»
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Anglo American plc's Outperform Rating Reaffirmed at Sanford C …
... base metals, which consists of copper, nickel and niobium; Precious metals and minerals, which include platinum and diamonds and Other ... «sleekmoney, Jul 15»
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Taseko Mines Limited Price Target Cut to C$1.15 (TKO)
The Company has two additional properties located in British Columbia: Aley, an exploration niobium project, and Harmony, an exploration ... «Mideast Time, Jul 15»
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Analyst Price Target Update on Iamgold Corporation (NYSE:IAG)
IAMGOLDs interests include five operating gold mines, a niobium mine, a diamond royalty, and exploration and development projects located ... «Insider Trading Report, Jul 15»
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Luxembourg 2015 Castle Brandenbourg 5-Euro Silver-Niobium Coin
The 2015 Castle Brandenbourg Castle 5-euro silver-niobium coin is the seventh of nine silver-niobium coins honoring Luxembourg castles to ... «CoinWeek, Jul 15»
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The Earth is Littered With the Fossils of Extinct Radioactive Particles
... potassium-41, and niobium-93. These themselves aren't what the researchers are looking for—any more than the minerals that make up a ... «io9, Jul 15»
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Anglo American plc Rating Reiterated by Liberum Capital (AAL)
... base metals, which consists of copper, nickel and niobium; Precious metals and minerals, which include platinum and diamonds and Other ... «WKRB News, Jul 15»
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Applications of Refractory Metals in Photovoltaic Thin Films
Niobium thin film is commonly used for optical applications. Like tantalum, this metal also has high resistance to chemical attack and corrosion. «Azom.com, Jul 15»
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Updated with video: Commerce Resources' rare earths pilot plant …
The company also holds the Blue River tantalum-niobium project in southeastern British Columbia, which reached the preliminary economic ... «Resource Clips, Jul 15»

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