atomic number 59

1. 1.

   a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process

   SynonymspraseodymiumPr

   Broadermetallic element

Questions about atomic number 59

What does atomic number 59 mean?

atomic number 59 means "a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process".

What is another word for atomic number 59?

Close synonyms include praseodymium, Pr. 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 59 a common word?

atomic number 59 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.