astatine

English

Chemical element
At
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄστατος (ástatos, “unstable”) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: asʹtətēn, IPA^(key): /ˈastətiːn/
(US) enPR: ăs'tətēn, IPA^(key): /ˈæstəˌtin/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

astatine (countable and uncountable, plural astatines)

A highly radioactive chemical element (symbol At), one of the halogens, with atomic number 85.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 221:
  Astatine, for instance, is practically unstudied. It has a name and a place on the periodic table (next to Marie Curie's polonium), but almost nothing else.
Synonyms: (proposed name) alabamine, (formerly) anglo-helvetium

Hypernyms

element
- halogen

Derived terms

astatane
astatide
eka-astatine

Translations

the chemical element

Afrikaans: astaat (af)
Albanian: astat ?
Arabic: أَسْتَاتِين‎ m (ʾastātīn)
Armenian: աստատ (astat)
Asturian: astatu (ast) m
Basque: astatoa
Belarusian: аста́т m (astát)
Breton: astat ?
Bulgarian: астати́н m (astatín)
Catalan: àstat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 砹 (zh) (ài)
Cornish: astatyn ?
Czech: astat (cs) m
Danish: astat (da) n
Dutch: astatium (nl) n, astaat (nl) n
Esperanto: astato (eo)
Estonian: astaat (et)
Faroese: astatan n
Finnish: astatiini (fi)
French: astate (fr) m
Friulian: astat ?
Galician: ástato m
Georgian: ასტატი (asṭaṭi)
German: Astat (de) n, Astatin n
Greek: άστατο (el) n (ástato)
Hebrew: אסטטין‎ (he) m (astatín)
Hindi: लावणी ? (lāvṇī)
Hungarian: asztácium (hu)
Icelandic: astat (is) n
Indonesian: astatin (id)
Irish: astaitín m
Italian: astato (it) m
Japanese: アスタチン (ja) (asutachin)
Kashubian: astat ?
Kazakh: астатин (astatin)
Khmer: អាស្តាត (ʼaahtaat)
Korean: 아스타틴 (ko) (aseutatin)
Latin: astatium (la) n
Latvian: astats m
Lithuanian: astatinas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Astat ?
Macedonian: аста́т m (astát)
Malay: astatin
Maltese: astatin ?
Manx: astaçheen ?
Mongolian: астат (astat)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: astat (no) n
Nynorsk: astat (nn) n
Occitan: astat m
Persian: استاتین‎ (astâtin)
Polish: astat (pl) m
Portuguese: astato (pt) m
Romanian: astatin (ro) n, astatiniu (ro) n
Russian: аста́т (ru) m (astát), астати́н (ru) m (astatín)
Scottish Gaelic: astatain f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀ста̄т m
Roman: àstāt (sh) m
Slovak: astat m
Slovene: astat (sl) m
Spanish: astato (es) m
Swedish: astat (sv) n
Tajik: астат (astat)
Tamil: அஸ்தாதைன் (astātaiṉ)
Thai: แอสทาทีน (ɛ́ɛs-taa-tiin)
Turkish: astat (tr), astatin (tr)
Ukrainian: аста́т m (astát)
Uzbek: astat, astatin
Cyrillic: астат (astat)
Vietnamese: astatin
Volapük: lastatin
Welsh: astatin (cy) m
West Frisian: astaat ?

Anagrams

Satanite, Tánaiste, in a state, sanitate