About The Word Rubidium
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Rubidium
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What's The Definition Of Rubidium?
[n] a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite
Synonyms | Synonyms for Rubidium: atomic number 37 | Rb Related Terms | Find terms related to Rubidium: See Also | carnallite | lepidolite | metal | metallic element | pollucite Rubidium In Webster's Dictionary \Ru*bid"i*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. rubidus red, fr. rubere
to be red. So called from two dark red spectroscopic lines by
means of which it was discovered in the lepidolite from
Rozena, Moravia. See {Rubicund}.] (Chem.)
A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small
quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft
yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its
properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.
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