atomic number 37

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsrubidiumRb

   Broadermetallic element

Questions about atomic number 37

What does atomic number 37 mean?

atomic number 37 means "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".

What is another word for atomic number 37?

Close synonyms include rubidium, Rb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atomic number 37 a common word?

atomic number 37 is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.