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Meaning of "selenous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELENOUS

sɪˈliːnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELENOUS

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

WHAT DOES SELENOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELENOUS

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELENOUS

selenious acid · selenite · selenitic · selenium · selenium cell · selenocentric · selenodont · selenograph · selenographer · selenographic · selenographical · selenographically · selenographist · selenography · selenological · selenologist · selenology · selenomorphology · selenosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELENOUS

androgenous · autogenous · collagenous · endogenous · erogenous · exogenous · gangrenous · hematogenous · heterogenous · homogenous · indigenous · larcenous · molybdenous · myelogenous · nitrogenous · nonindigenous · nous · ravenous · skeletogenous · terrigenous · thermogenous

Synonyms and antonyms of selenous in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «selenous» into 25 languages

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zh

Translator English - Chinese

亚硒
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

selenioso
570 millions of speakers
en

English

selenous
510 millions of speakers
hi

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selenous
380 millions of speakers
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selenous
280 millions of speakers
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селенистой
278 millions of speakers
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selenoso
270 millions of speakers
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selenous
260 millions of speakers
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séléniexix
220 millions of speakers
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Selenous
190 millions of speakers
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Selenige
180 millions of speakers
ja

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亜セレン
130 millions of speakers
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selenous
85 millions of speakers
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Selenous
85 millions of speakers
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selenous
80 millions of speakers
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selenous
75 millions of speakers
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Selenous
75 millions of speakers
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selenik
70 millions of speakers
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selenous
65 millions of speakers
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selenous
50 millions of speakers
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селенистой
40 millions of speakers
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selenous
30 millions of speakers
el

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σεληνικού
15 millions of speakers
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selenous
14 millions of speakers
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selen
10 millions of speakers
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selen
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELENOUS»

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Inorganic Chemistry
SeO, dissolves easily in water to form selenous acid, H2SeO,. which is much more stable than sulfurous acid, H,S03. When the water is evaporated from such solutions in vacuum, deliquescent, colorless prisms are formed. These crumble in  ...
Egon Wiberg, Nils Wiberg, 2001
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A Handbook of Chemical Analysis: (adapted to the Unitary ...
When heated in the air it burns with a reddish-blue flame, forming selenous anhydride, SeO2, and giving off a characteristic smell resembling that of horseradish. It is soluble, not very readily, in nitric acid and aqua-regia, selenous acid being ...
Francis Thirkill Conington, 1858
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A handbook of chemical analysis, based on dr. H. Will's ...
When heated in the air it burns with a reddish-blue flame, forming selenous anhydride, SeO2, and giving off a characteristic smell resembling that of horseradish. It is soluble, not very readily, in nitric acid and aqua-regia, selenous acid being ...
Francis Thirkill Conington, Heinrich Will, 1858
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Handbook on Rare Earth Metals and Alloys (Properties, ...
It is hygroscopic and extremely soluble in water, forming selenous acid H2SeO3. Selenous acid resembles sulfurous acid, H2SO3, in the method of formation, in the nature and kinds of salts formed, and its general behaviour with oxidizing and  ...
NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers, 2009
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Pharmaceutical Drug Analysis
The latter converts selenium (Se) as selenous acid (H,SeO3), which on subsequent treatment with 3,3'-diaminobenzidine under controlled experimental parameters, results into the formation of a highly coloured compound known as 3  ...
Ashutosh Kar, 2005
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Arsenic, Selenium, Antimony Ultra-Trace Analysis
It dissolves in water to form selenous acid, HzSeO3. Selenous acid can also be made directly by oxidizing elemental selenium with notric acid: 3 Se+4HNO3+ H20—>3 H2SeO3+4NO Unlike sulfur, which forms a stable trioxide, selenium ...
Paul Gouda, 2012
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Encyclopedia of the Alkaline Earth Compounds
Selenous acid is the principal oxoacid of selenium when the Se atom is in the þ4 oxidation state. Selenous acid is analogous to sulfurous acid, but it is more readily isolated. Selenous acid is easily formed upon the addition of selenium dioxide ...
Richard C. Ropp, 2012
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Electrochemical Processing in ULSI Fabrication and ...
EXPERIMENTAL CdSe was electrodeposited using a 0.2 M CdSO4 acidic solution (t=80°C) with various amounts of selenous acid (0.5xl0"3 M<CSe^3xl0"3 M). The best epitaxial conditions were generally obtained for a 0.5x10"3 M Se ...
Panayotis C. Andricacos, 1999
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Inorganic Reactions and Methods, The Formation of Bonds to ...
Selenous and Tellurous Acids 2. 2. I. Haiduc, K. J. Wynne, in Methodicum Chimicum, Vol. 7, F. Korte, ed., Academic Press, New York, 1978, p. 670. 3. S. Pawlenko, in Merhoden der Organische Chemie (Houben-Weyl), Band E11, D. Klamann, ...
J. J. Zuckerman, A. P. Hagen, 2009
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Electrochemistry of Metal Chalcogenides
Selenium dioxide (naturally occurring selenolite) is a white solid, which can be formed by burning elemental selenium in air, by oxidizing it with nitric acid, or by dehydrating selenous acid. It is readily reduced to the elemental state by ammonia ...
Mirtat Bouroushian, 2010
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