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Caesium Moderate

Caesium has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal

2

The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
metallic element
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
cesium 137

Origin

The name comes from the Latin word caesius, meaning sky-blue, which refers to the element's characteristic blue radiation spectrum. It ends with the suffix -ium.

Rhyming Words
ium sium ilium opium apium arium mnium onium odium aecium corium helium cilium lycium aprium radium lilium nerium galium indium
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