technetium

What does technetium mean?

technetium means "a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium".

How many syllables are in technetium?

technetium has 4 syllables and divides as tech-ne-ti-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 technetium?

Close synonyms include Tc, atomic number 43. 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 technetium a common word?

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