Crossword-Solution: TANTALUM
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| Tantalum | n. | A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium. |
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| Element No. 73 | 1 answer |
| Element with the symbol Ta | 1 answer |
| Its atomic number is 73 | 1 answer |
| hard greyish-white metallic element | 1 answer |
| rare metallic element | 5 answers |
| A HARD GREY LUSTROUS METALLIC ELEMENT THAT IS HIGHLY RESISTANT TO CORROSION | 11 answers |
| metallic chemical element | 20 answers |
| metallic element | 34 answers |
| Element | 95 answers |
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Sentences with TANTALUM (5)
During the last four or five years lamps with filaments made from tantalum and tungsten have been produced and placed on the market with great success, and are now largely used.
Hic superbum Tantalum atque Tantali Genus coercet, hic levare functum Pauperem laboribus Vocatus atque non vocatus audit.
Certain compounds of tin-oxides, particularly if they contain tantalum, are by fusion with carbonate of soda reduced with difficulty; but by the addition of some borax, the reduction to the metallic state is easily effected.
The first metallic filament used in the electric light on a commercial scale was made of tantalum, the metal of Tantalus.
Columbium is a metal closely resembling tantalum and tantalum found a use as electric light filaments.
Quotes with TANTALUM (2)
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals — my old and valued friends — Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ... The chief result is that ... the result for any metal (is) quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shews that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2001–2010).