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rhenium

  • noun
  • rē'nēəm

A metallic chemical element with the atomic number 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition metal.

Other meanings

  1. A single atom of this element.

A kind of

  • metallic element

Related words

  • dirhenium
  • dodecarhenium
  • organorhenium
  • oxorhenium
  • radiorhenium
  • rhenian
  • trirhenium
  • eka-rhenium
  • rhenic
  • rhenium dioxide
  • rhenium heptaoxide
  • rhenium heptaselenide

Word history

From Latin "Rhenus" (Rhine).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “rhenium” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.