Word Meanings - SELENIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark

Additional info about word: SELENIUM

A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic- looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9.

Related words: (words related to SELENIUM)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• SULPHURWORT
  The hog's fennel. See under Fennel.
• REDDISH
  Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• SULPHURY
  Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• PROTOSULPHURET
  A protosulphide.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.