Crossword-Solution: CAESIUM
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| Caesium | n. | A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6. |
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You will see," he added, pointing down the second vertical column on the chart, "that gold belongs to the hydrogen group--hydrogen, lithium, sodium, potassium, copper, rubidium, silver, caesium, then two blank spaces for elements yet to be discovered to science, then gold, and finally another unknown element." Running his finger along the eleventh, horizontal series, he, continued: "The gold series--not the group--reads gold, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, and other elements known only to myself.
Caesium, Chloride of.—Four leaves were immersed, as above, in 120 minims of a solution of one part to 437 of water.
The oxide of caesium, caesia (Cs_{2}O), is found associated with lithia in lepidolite, &c., and, together with rubidium, in many mineral waters.
Caesium is best detected by the spectroscope, its spectrum being characterised by two lines in the blue and one in the red; the latter is about midway between the lithium and sodium lines.
The caesium is precipitated as a white crystalline precipitate (CsCl.SbCl_{3}), which is filtered off, and washed, when cold, with strong hydrochloric acid; since it is decomposed by water or on warming.