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Meaning of "seleniferous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELENIFEROUS

seleniferous  [ˌselɪˈnɪfərəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELENIFEROUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Seleniferous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELENIFEROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

seleniferous

Selenium

Selenium is a chemical element with symbol Se and atomic number 34. It is a nonmetal with properties that are intermediate between those of its periodic table column-adjacent chalcogen elements sulfur and tellurium. It rarely occurs in its elemental state in nature, or as pure ore compounds. Selenium was discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who noted the similarity of the new element to the previously known tellurium. Selenium is found impurely in metal sulfide ores, where it partially replaces the sulfur. Commercially, selenium is produced as a byproduct in the refining of these ores, most often during copper production. Minerals that are pure selenide or selenate compounds are known, but are rare. The chief commercial uses for selenium today are in glassmaking and in pigments. Selenium is a semiconductor and is used in photocells. Uses in electronics, once important, have been mostly supplanted by silicon semiconductor devices. Selenium continues to be used in a few types of DC power surge protectors, baby formula, and one type of fluorescent quantum dot.

Definition of seleniferous in the English dictionary

The definition of seleniferous in the dictionary is containing selenium.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELENIFEROUS


aluminiferous
əˌluːmɪˈnɪfərəs
antenniferous
ˌænteˈnɪfərəs
carboniferous
ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfərəs
coniferous
kəˈnɪfərəs
foraminiferous
fɒˌræmɪˈnɪfərəs
guaniferous
ɡwəˈnɪfərəs
laniferous
ləˈnɪfərəs
luminiferous
ˌluːmɪˈnɪfərəs
manganiferous
ˌmæŋɡəˈnɪfərəs
manniferous
mæˈnɪfərəs
ozoniferous
ˌəʊzəʊˈnɪfərəs
polleniferous
ˌpɒlɪˈnɪfərəs
resiniferous
ˌrɛzɪˈnɪfərəs
seminiferous
ˌsɛmɪˈnɪfərəs
somniferous
sɒmˈnɪfərəs
spiniferous
spaɪˈnɪfərəs
staminiferous
ˌstæmɪˈnɪfərəs
stoloniferous
ˌstəʊləˈnɪfərəs
titaniferous
ˌtaɪtəˈnɪfərəs
uriniferous
ˌjʊərɪˈnɪfərəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELENIFEROUS

selenate
Selene
selenian
selenic
selenic acid
selenide
selenious
selenious acid
selenite
selenitic
selenium
selenium cell
selenocentric
selenodont
selenograph
selenographer
selenographic
selenographical
selenographically
selenographist

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELENIFEROUS

adulterous
boisterous
cadaverous
cancerous
cruciferous
dangerous
generous
humorous
lecherous
murderous
noncancerous
numerous
odoriferous
onerous
preposterous
prosperous
serous
slanderous
splendiferous
thunderous
treacherous

Synonyms and antonyms of seleniferous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «seleniferous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELENIFEROUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

seleniferous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

selenífera
570 millions of speakers

English

seleniferous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

seleniferous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

seleniferous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

seleniferous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

seleniferous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

seleniferous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sélénifère
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seleniferous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

selen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

セレンを含む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

seleniferous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seleniferous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

seleniferous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

seleniferous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्बल घटक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

seleniferous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

seleniferous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

seleniferous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

seleniferous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

seleniferous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σελήνιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

seleniferous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

seleniferous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

seleniferous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of seleniferous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELENIFEROUS»

The term «seleniferous» is used very little and occupies the 187.016 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELENIFEROUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «seleniferous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «seleniferous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELENIFEROUS»

Discover the use of seleniferous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to seleniferous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Irrigation-induced contamination of water, sediment, and ...
Any marine deposit laid down in a shallow, productive environment may be seleniferous. Selenium bioaccumulates in marine phytoplankton to concentrations several thousand times greater than that in the seawater. Selenium concentrations ...
R. L. Seiler, National Irrigation Water Quality Program (U.S.), 2003
2
Selenium in Food and Health
One of the earliest published reports of selenosis in stock was of an outbreak that occurred near Dublin in the late 1880s (Fream, 1890). Seleniferous soils are found only in isolated pockets around the country, and probably affect not more ...
Conor Reilly, 2006
3
Circular
In discussing the role of geobotany in the study of selenium in the environment, it is useful to review the relationships between plants and seleniferous soils, and to consider the taxa that have proven to be reliable selenium indicators.
‎1992
4
Environmental Chemistry of Selenium
Whether a Tertiary continental sedimentary deposit is seleniferous depends on several factors. Such factors include whether the parent rock was seleniferous, whether reduced selenium in the rock was exposed to the strongly oxidizing ...
William T. Frankenberger, Richard A. Engberg, 1998
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Selenium in Nutrition,: Revised Edition
feld and Beath, 1964) and with pyrite and marcasite (Rosenfeld and Beath, 1964; Elkin and Margrave, 1968) in sediments lends support to Strock's explanation. Toxic Seleniferous Soils Toxic seleniferous soils are usually alkaline in reaction ...
‎1983
6
Toxicants Of Plant Origin: Proteins & Amino Acids
The Se content of most soils lies between 0.1 and 2 ppm.1 The maximum quantity of Se found in several thousand soil samples in the U.S. did not exceed 100 ppm, and the majority of the seleniferous soils analyzed contained on the average ...
Peter R. Cheeke, 1989
7
Bibliography of the Geology of the Western Phosphate Field
Beath, O. A., Eppson, H. F., and Gilbert, C. S., 1937a, Selenium distribution in and seasonal variation of type vegetation occurring on seleniferous soils : Am. Pharmaceutical Assoc. Jour., v. 26, no. 5, p. 394-405. Report on studies of the form of ...
Robert A. Harris, 1954
8
Geochemical Environment in Relation to Health and Disease: ...
COUNTRIES IN WHICH POSSIBLY TOXIC SELENIFEROUS VEGETATION HAS BEEN REPORTED Country Reference United States Muth and Allaway (1963) Canada Byers and Lakin (1939) Mexico Byers (1937) England and Wales Webb  ...
Helen Leighton Cannon, Howard Carl Hopps, 1972
9
Technical Bulletin
It appears most intensively seleniferous in the area about Indian Springs in the drainage line from the Springs area. While it is possible, therefore, that this area represents seepage concentration from the limestones poorer in selenium than the ...
‎1942
10
Selenium occurrence in certain soils in the United States, ...
The data in table 3 establish the existence of a mildly seleniferous area of soils derived from quaternary alluvium. It appears most intensively seleniferous in the area about Indian Springs in the drainage line from the Springs area. While it is ...
Hubert William Lakin, Horace Greeley Byers, 1941

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELENIFEROUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term seleniferous is used in the context of the following news items.
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New report reveals retiring toxic farmland would save water, money
The groups said the disastrous consequences of industrial-scale cultivation of seleniferous lands became obvious in 1983, when thousands of migratory ... «Bay Area Indymedia, Jul 15»
2
Retiring Toxic CA Farmland Better Deal Than Tunnels
The disastrous consequences of industrial-scale cultivation of seleniferous lands became obvious in 1983, when thousands of migratory waterfowl were ... «Food and Water Watch, Jul 15»
3
Obama Selling Out California to Westlands Water District
Of the several alternatives presented, federal officials seemed to favor those that would retire significant portions of seleniferous lands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... «Bay Area Indymedia, Oct 14»
4
California's Selenium Time Bomb Keeps Ticking
Drainwater deliveries to the refuge were subsequently halted, but irrigation hasn't stopped in the highly seleniferous soils of the western San Joaquin Valley. «Huffington Post, Jun 12»
5
Institution: Google Indexer
Conversely, Wangeline et al. have found that the rhizosphere fungi associated with these plants in seleniferous soils have also adapted and possess ... «Am J Botany, Jul 11»
6
Design defines response of selenium
... Polo described a disease syndrome encountered during his travels to China when the hooves dropped off his horses after the animals ate seleniferous plants. «WorldPoultry.net, Aug 10»

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