gadolinium

What does gadolinium mean?

gadolinium means "a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group".

How many syllables are in gadolinium?

gadolinium has 5 syllables and divides as ga-do-li-ni-um under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gadolinium?

Close synonyms include Gd, atomic number 64. 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 gadolinium a common word?

gadolinium 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gadolinium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.