rubidium

What does rubidium mean?

rubidium 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".

How many syllables are in rubidium?

rubidium has 4 syllables and divides as ru-bi-di-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 rubidium?

Close synonyms include Rb, atomic number 37. 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 rubidium a common word?

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