praseodymium

What does praseodymium mean?

praseodymium 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".

How many syllables are in praseodymium?

praseodymium has 6 syllables and divides as pra-se-o-dy-mi-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 praseodymium?

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

praseodymium 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 praseodymium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.