thallium

thallium

See also: Thallium

English

Chemical element
Tl
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Next: lead (Pb)

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós, “green branch”) (after the color of the radiation spectra), +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thăl'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈθæliəm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æliəm

Noun

thallium (countable and uncountable, plural thalliums)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Tl) with atomic number 81: a gray post-transition metal that discolors when exposed to air.
   • 2021 January 27, Li You, “Northwest China Reports Thallium Pollution in Yangtze Tributary”, in Bibek Bhandari, editor, Sixth Tone‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2021‎:

     Environmental authorities in Lüeyang County, Shaanxi province, discovered excessive levels of thallium in two of the Jialing River’s upstream tributaries on Jan. 20, according to a statement Monday. The concentration of thallium that day was 170% higher than the standard for Qingni River, one of the upstream tributaries bordering Gansu province.

2. A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• eka-thallium
• thallane
• thallic
• thalliferous
• thallious
• thallium-activated
• thallium glass
• thallium green
• thallium hydroxide
• thallium line
• thallium monofluoride
• thallium monoxide
• thallium oxide
• thallium sulfate, thallium sulphate
• thallium sulfide, thallium sulphide
• thallium trioxide
• thallous
• thall-, thallo-

 

Related terms

• thallate

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: tallium (af) Albanian: talium Arabic: ثَالْيُوم‎ m (ṯālyūm) Armenian: թալիում (hy) (tʿalium) Asturian: taliu (ast) m Basque: talioa Belarusian: та́лій m (táliĭ) Breton: taliom Bulgarian: та́ллий m (tálliĭ) Catalan: tal·li (ca) Chinese: 鉈 (zh), 铊 (zh) (tā) Cornish: thalyum Czech: thallium (cs) Danish: thallium (da) Dutch: thallium (nl) n Esperanto: talio (eo) Estonian: tallium (et) Faroese: tallium n Finnish: tallium (fi) French: thallium (fr) m Friulian: tali Galician: talio (gl) Georgian: თალიუმი (taliumi) German: Thallium (de) n Greek: θάλλιο (el) n (thállio) Hebrew: תליום‎ (he) (tályum) Hindi: सिक्ष्यातु (sikṣyātu) Hungarian: tallium (hu) Icelandic: þallín (is) Irish: tailliam Italian: tallio (it) m Japanese: タリウム (ja) (tariumu) Kashubian: tôl Kazakh: таллий (talliĭ) Korean: 탈륨 (ko) (tallyum) Latin: thallium (la) Latvian: tallijs Lithuanian: talis (lt) Luxembourgish: Thallium Macedonian: талиум (talium) Malay: talium Maltese: tallju Manx: thallium Mongolian: талли (talli) Norwegian: thallium Occitan: talli m Polish: tal (pl) m Portuguese: tálio (pt) m Romanian: taliu (ro) n Russian: та́ллий (ru) m (tálliĭ) Scottish Gaelic: tailliam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: талиjум m, талиj m Roman: talijum, talij (sh) Slovak: tálium n Slovene: talij (sl) Spanish: talio (es) m Swedish: tallium (sv) Tajik: таллий Tamil: தல்லியம் (talliyam) Thai: แทลเลียม (tɛɛl-lîiam) Turkish: talyum (tr) Ukrainian: та́лій m (táliy̆) Uzbek: talliy (uz), таллий (uz) (talliĭ) Vietnamese: tali (vi) Volapük: talin (vo) Welsh: thaliwm (cy) West Frisian: thallium

See also

• crookesite
• hutchinsonite
• lorandite

Further reading

• thallium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Alternative forms

• tallium

Noun

thallium

1. thallium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Tl
Previous: kwik (Hg)
Next: lood (Pb)

Pronunciation

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Noun

thallium n (uncountable)

1. thallium

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ljɔm/

• Audio

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Noun

thallium m (uncountable)

1. thallium

Descendants

• → Turkish: talyum

Further reading

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

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Latin

Chemical element
Tl
Previous: hydrargyrum (Hg)
Next: plumbum (Pb)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰal.li.um/, [ˈt̪ʰälːʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtal.li.um/, [ˈt̪älːium]

Noun

thallium n (genitive thalliī); second declension

1. thallium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thallium	thallia
Genitive	thalliī	thalliōrum
Dative	thalliō	thalliīs
Accusative	thallium	thallia
Ablative	thalliō	thalliīs
Vocative	thallium	thallia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈðɑ˦ʎɔ˧m]

Noun

thallium n

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

Inflection

Declension of thallium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	thallium	thallia	thallieke	thalliekes
Genitive	thalliums	thallia	thalliekes	thalliekes
Locative	thallieës	thallieëser	thallieëske	thallieëskes
Dative¹	thalliumme	—	thallieke	—
Accusative¹	thallium	—	thallieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.