scandium

scandium

See also: Scandium

English

Chemical element
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Scandium dendrites and cube.

Etymology

From Scandia +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skăn'dēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈskændi.əm/

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Noun

scandium (uncountable)

1. A metallic chemical element, atomic number 21, obtained from some uranium ores; it is a transition element.

Synonyms

• eka-boron

Derived terms

• scandium-45
• scandium chloride
• scandium fluoride
• scandium iodide
• scandium oxide
• scandium trichloride

 

Related terms

• scandia
• Scandinavia

 

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: skandium (af) Albanian: skandium ? Arabic: (please verify) سَكَانْدِيُوم‎ m (sakandiyum) Armenian: սկանդիում (hy) (skandium) Asturian: escandiu (ast) m Basque: eskandio (eu) Belarusian: ска́ндый m (skándyj) Breton: skandiom ? Bulgarian: ска́ндий m (skándij) Catalan: escandi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 鈧 (zh) (kàng) Cornish: scandyum ? Czech: skandium (cs) ? Danish: skandium ? Dutch: scandium (nl) n Esperanto: skandio (eo) Estonian: skandium (et) Faroese: skandium n Finnish: skandium (fi) French: scandium (fr) m Friulian: scandi ? Galician: escandio (gl) m Georgian: სკანდიუმი (sḳandiumi) German: Skandium n, Scandium (de) n Greek: σκάνδιο (el) n (skándio) Hebrew: סקנדיום‎ (he) m (skandium) Hindi: स्तोकातु ? (stokātu) Hungarian: szkandium (hu) Icelandic: skandín (is) n Interlingua: scandium Irish: scaindiam (ga) m Italian: scandio (it) m Japanese: スカンジウム (ja) (sukanjiumu) Kashubian: skónd Kazakh: скандий (skandii) Khmer: ស្កង់ដ្យូម (skɑngdyoum) Korean: 스칸듐 (ko) (seukandyum) Latin: scandium (la) n Latvian: skandijs ? Lingala: sekandu class 9a/10a Lithuanian: skandis (lt) ? Luxembourgish: Skandium ? Macedonian: скандиум m (skandium) Malay: skandium Maltese: skandju ? Manx: scandjum ? Mongolian: сканди (skandi) Norwegian: scandium (no) ? Occitan: escandi (oc) m Polish: skand (pl) m Portuguese: escândio (pt) m Romanian: scandiu (ro) n Russian: ска́ндий (ru) m (skándij) Scottish Gaelic: scandium m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ска̑ндӣј m, скандиjум m Roman: skȃndīj (sh) m, skandijum m Slovak: skandium ? Slovene: skandij (sl) ? Spanish: escandio (es) m Swedish: skandium (sv) n Tajik: skandi' Tamil: ஸ்கண்டியம் (skaṇṭiyam) Thai: สแคนเดียม (sakhaendiam) Turkish: skandiyum (tr) Ukrainian: ска́ндій m (skándij) Uzbek: skandiy (uz) Vietnamese: scandi Welsh: scandiwm (cy) m West Frisian: scandium ?

Anagrams

• muscadin

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Danish

Alternative forms

• skandium (obsolete)

Noun

scandium

1. scandium

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Dutch

Chemical element
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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin scandium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɑn.di.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: scan‧di‧um

Noun

scandium n (uncountable)

1. scandium (chemical element)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɑ̃.djɔm/

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Noun

scandium m (uncountable)

1. scandium

Descendants

• → Lingala: sekandu

Further reading

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

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Latin

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Etymology

Coined in 1869 by chemist Lars Fredrik Nilson, derived from Scandia (“Scandinavia”) +‎ -ium (chemical element suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.di.um/, [ˈs̠kän̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.di.um/, [ˈskän̪d̪ium]

Noun

scandium n (genitive scandiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) scandium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scandium	scandia
Genitive	scandiī	scandiōrum
Dative	scandiō	scandiīs
Accusative	scandium	scandia
Ablative	scandiō	scandiīs
Vocative	scandium	scandia