tantalum
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
Definition of tantalum
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A chemical element (symbol Ta) with atomic number 73: a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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Etymology
A New Latin word derived by Swedish chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg in 1802, from Latin Tantalus, named after Tantalus, alluding to the element's incapacity to absorb acid. See -ium.
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