metal
Definitions of metal
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a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiecetypes:barítonothe second lowest brass wind instrumenttubathe lowest brass wind instrumentcornetína brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfaresclarína medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tonetrompetaa brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valvestrombóna brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slidebombardinoa bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba familyhelicóna tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musiciansacabuchea medieval musical instrument resembling a trombonetype of:instrumento de vientoa musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
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(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
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any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.synonyms: elemento metálicotypes:aluminioa silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxiteamericioa radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atomsantimonioa metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnitebarioa soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in bariteberkelioa radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with heliumberilioa light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic elementbismutoa heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metalscadmioa soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc orescalcioa white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animalscalifornioa radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particlescerioa ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth groupcesioa soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metalcromoa hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishingcobaltoa hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutritioncobrea ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductorcurioa radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nucleidisprosioa trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; forms compounds that are highly magneticeinstenioa radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutronserbioa trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttriumeuropioa bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth groupfermioa radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutronsfrancioa radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actiniumgadolinioa ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth groupgalioa rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc oreshafnioa grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electronsholmioa trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compoundsindioa rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphaleriteiridioa heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmiumhierroa heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the bloodlantanoa white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earthplomoa soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull greylitioa soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several mineralslutecioa trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttriummagnesioa light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)manganesoa hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many mineralsazogue, mercurioa heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperaturesmolibdenoa polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steelneodimioa yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymiumneptunioa radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutoniumníquela hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and milleriteniobioa soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbiumosmioa hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal knownpaladioa silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelrypolonioa radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactorpotasioa light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvitepraseodimioa soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange processprometeoa soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uraniumprotoactinioa short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into leadradioan intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium oresrenioa rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenumrodioa white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinumrubidioa soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and polluciterutenioa rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinumsamarioa grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasiteescandioa white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveititesodioa silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)estroncioa soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianitetantalioa hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalitetecnecioa crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uraniumterbioa metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbitetalioa soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron orestorioa soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sandstulioa soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotimeestañoa silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxidetitanioa light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenitetungsteno, volframio, wolframioa heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheeliteuranioa heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weaponsvanadioa soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadiniteiterbio, yterbioa soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotimeitrioa silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloyscinc, zinca bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blendecirconio, zirconioa lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zirconmetal alcalinoany of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium)alcalinotérreoany of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)alumbrea white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminumalumbrea white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminumbaritaany of several compounds of bariumoroa soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regiaplatinoa heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some depositsplataa soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photographyarrabio, hierro colado, hierro fundidoan alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by castinghierro forjadoiron having a low carbon content that is tough and malleable and so can be forged and weldedcromadoanother word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigmentshierro galvanizadoiron that is coated with zinc to protect it from rusttype of:elemento, elemento químicoany of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
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