niobium

niobium

See also: nióbium

English

Chemical element
Nb
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Etymology

Niobe +‎ -ium, because of the element's affinity with tantalum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nīō'bēəm, IPA^(key): /naɪˈoʊbiəm/

Noun

niobium (countable and uncountable, plural niobiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Nb) with an atomic number of 41: a light grey, crystalline, ductile transition metal used in superconducting materials.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Synonyms

• columbium (in metallurgy; not in scientific use)
• dianium (obsolete)

Derived terms

• ferroniobium
• niobate
• niobian
• niobic
• niobite
• niobium carbide
• niobium chloride
• niobium pentachloride
• niobous
• niocalite

 

Related terms

• Niobe

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: niobium (af) Albanian: niob Arabic: نِيُوبْيُوم‎ m (niyubyum) Armenian: նիոբիում (hy) (niobium) Asturian: niobiu (ast) m Basque: niobioa Belarusian: ніо́бій m (nióbij) Breton: niobiom Bulgarian: нио́бий m (nióbij) Catalan: niobi (ca) Chinese: 鈮／铌 (zh) (ní) Cornish: nyobyum Czech: niob (cs) m Danish: niobium (da) n Dutch: niobium (nl) n Esperanto: niobo (eo), niobio (eo) Estonian: nioobium (et) Faroese: niobium n Finnish: niobi (fi), niobium (fi) French: niobium (fr) m Galician: niobio (gl) Georgian: ნიობიუმი (niobiumi) German: Niob (de) n Greek: νιόβιο (el) n (nióvio) Hebrew: ניוביום‎ (he) (niyobyum) Hindi: काशातु (kāśātu) Hungarian: nióbium (hu) Icelandic: nióbín Interlingua: niobium Irish: niaibiam (ga) Italian: niobio (it) m Japanese: ニオブ (ja) (niobu) Kazakh: ниобий (niobii) Khmer: ញ៉ូប្យូម (ñoupyoum) Korean: 니오브 (ko) (niobeu), 니오븀 (niobyum), 콜럼븀 (kolleombyum), 나이오븀 (naiobyum) Latvian: niobijs Lithuanian: niobis (lt) Macedonian: ниобиум (niobium) Malay: niobium Maltese: niobju Mongolian: ниоби (niobi) Norwegian: Bokmål: niob n Nynorsk: niob (nn) n Occitan: niòbi m Polish: niob (pl) m Portuguese: nióbio (pt) m Romanian: niobiu (ro) n Russian: нио́бий (ru) m (nióbij) Scottish Gaelic: niòibiam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ниобиj m, ниобиjум m Roman: niobij (sh), niobijum Slovak: niób (sk) m Slovene: niobij (sl) m Spanish: niobio (es) m Swedish: niob (sv) n Tagalog: kolumbyo Tajik: ниобий Tamil: களங்கன் (ta) (kaḷaṅkaṉ) Thai: ไนโอเบี (naiōbiam) Turkish: niyobyum (tr) Ukrainian: ніо́бій m (nióbij) Uzbek: niobiy (uz), ниобий (niobiy) Vietnamese: niobi Welsh: niobiwm (cy) West Frisian: niobium

See also

• columbite
• columbite-tantalite
• coltan
• euxenite
• pyrochlore

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Nb
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Next: molibdeen (Mo)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

niobium (uncountable)

1. niobium

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Danish

Noun

niobium

1. niobium (element)

Synonyms

• niob

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Dutch

Chemical element
Nb
Previous: zirkonium (Zr)
Next: molybdeen (Mo)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin niobium, named after the mythological queen Niobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌniˈoː.bi.ʏm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ni‧o‧bi‧um

Noun

niobium n (uncountable)

1. niobium (chemical element) [from ca. 1845]

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English niobium).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniobium/, [ˈnio̞ˌbium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): ni‧o‧bi‧um

Noun

niobium

1. niobium

Declension

Inflection of niobium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		niobium	niobiumit
genitive		niobiumin	niobiumien
partitive		niobiumia	niobiumeja
illative		niobiumiin	niobiumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		niobium	niobiumit
accusative	nom.	niobium	niobiumit
	gen.	niobiumin
genitive		niobiumin	niobiumien
partitive		niobiumia	niobiumeja
inessive		niobiumissa	niobiumeissa
elative		niobiumista	niobiumeista
illative		niobiumiin	niobiumeihin
adessive		niobiumilla	niobiumeilla
ablative		niobiumilta	niobiumeilta
allative		niobiumille	niobiumeille
essive		niobiumina	niobiumeina
translative		niobiumiksi	niobiumeiksi
instructive		—	niobiumein
abessive		niobiumitta	niobiumeitta
comitative		—	niobiumeineen

Possessive forms of niobium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	niobiumini	niobiumimme
2nd person	niobiumisi	niobiuminne
3rd person	niobiuminsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njɔ.bjɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

niobium m (uncountable)

1. niobium

Further reading

• “niobium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Chemical element
Nb
Previous: zirconium (Zr)
Next: molybdenum (Mo)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niˈo.bi.um/, [niˈɔbiʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niˈo.bi.um/, [niˈɔːbium]

Noun

niobium n (genitive niobiī); second declension

1. niobium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	niobium	niobia
Genitive	niobiī	niobiōrum
Dative	niobiō	niobiīs
Accusative	niobium	niobia
Ablative	niobiō	niobiīs
Vocative	niobium	niobia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɲoː˨bjɔ˧m]

Noun

niobium n

1. (uncountable) niobium
2. A part of niobium

Inflection

Declension of niobium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	niobium	niobia	niobieke	niobiekes
Genitive	niobiums	niobia	niobiekes	niobiekes
Locative	niobieës	niobieëser	niobieëske	niobieëskes
Dative¹	niobiumme	—	niobieke	—
Accusative¹	niobium	—	niobieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Chemical element
Nb
Previous: zirkonium (Zr)
Next: molibdenum (Mo)

Etymology

From English niobium, from Niobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [niobiom], [niobiəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

niobium

1. niobium (chemical element)