scandium

What does scandium mean?

scandium means "a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite".

How many syllables are in scandium?

scandium has 3 syllables and divides as scan-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 scandium?

Close synonyms include Sc, atomic number 21. 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 scandium a common word?

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