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The chemical element (symbol Rb) with an atomic number of 37. It is a soft, highly reactive alkali metal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A single atom of this element.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Rb, atomic number 37
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
A New Latin word derived by German chemist R. W. Bunsen in 1861, from Latin rūbidus (“red”) because its spectrum has two red lines.
Across languages
Translations
71 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Albanian:
rubid
— element with atomic number 37
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Arabic:
رُوبِيدِيُوم
(rūbīdiyūm)
— element with atomic number 37
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Armenian:
ռուբիդիում
(ṙubidium)
— element with atomic number 37
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Asturian:
rubidiu
— element with atomic number 37
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Basque:
rubidioa
— element with atomic number 37
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Breton:
rubidiom
— element with atomic number 37
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Bulgarian:
руби́дий
(rubídij)
— element with atomic number 37
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Catalan:
rubidi
— element with atomic number 37
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Chinese Mandarin:
銣 /铷
(rú)
— element with atomic number 37
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Cornish:
rubydyum
— element with atomic number 37
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Czech:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Danish:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Dutch:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Esperanto:
rubidio
— element with atomic number 37
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Estonian:
rubiidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Faroese:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Finnish:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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French:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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West-Frisian:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Friulian:
rubidi
— element with atomic number 37
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Galician:
rubidio
— element with atomic number 37
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Georgian:
რუბიდიუმი
(rubidiumi)
— element with atomic number 37
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German:
Rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Greek:
ρουβίδιο
(rouvídio)
— element with atomic number 37
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Hebrew:
רובידיום
(rubídyum)
— element with atomic number 37
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Hindi:
दीपातु
(dīpātu)
— element with atomic number 37
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Hungarian:
rubídium
— element with atomic number 37
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Icelandic:
rúbidín
— element with atomic number 37
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Interlingua:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Irish:
rúbaidiam
— element with atomic number 37
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Italian:
rubidio
— element with atomic number 37
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Japanese:
ルビジウム
(rubijiumu)
— element with atomic number 37
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Khmer:
រុយប៊ីដ្យូម
(ruybiidyoum)
— element with atomic number 37
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Korean:
루비듐
(rubidyum)
— element with atomic number 37
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Latin:
rūbidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Latvian:
rubīdijs
— element with atomic number 37
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Lithuanian:
rubidis
— element with atomic number 37
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Luxembourgish:
Rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Macedonian:
рубидиум
(rubidium)
— element with atomic number 37
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Malay:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Maltese:
rubidju
— element with atomic number 37
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Manx:
rubiddjum
— element with atomic number 37
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Mongolian:
рубиди
(rubidi)
— element with atomic number 37
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Norwegian:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Occitan:
rubidi
— element with atomic number 37
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Polish:
rubid
— element with atomic number 37
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Portuguese:
rubídio
— element with atomic number 37
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Romanian:
rubidiu
— element with atomic number 37
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Russian:
руби́дий
(rubídij)
— element with atomic number 37
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Scottish Gaelic:
rubaidiam
— element with atomic number 37
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Serbo-Croatian:
рубидиjум
— element with atomic number 37
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Serbo-Croatian:
рубидиј
— element with atomic number 37
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Serbo-Croatian:
rubidijum
— element with atomic number 37
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Serbo-Croatian:
rubidij
— element with atomic number 37
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Slovak:
rubídium
— element with atomic number 37
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Slovene:
rubídij
— element with atomic number 37
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Spanish:
rubidio
— element with atomic number 37
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Swedish:
rubidium
— element with atomic number 37
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Tagalog:
rubidyo
— element with atomic number 37
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Tajik:
рубидий
(rubidiy)
— element with atomic number 37
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Tamil:
அர்மிமம்
(armimam)
— element with atomic number 37
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Thai:
รูบิเดียม
(ruu-bì-dîiam)
— element with atomic number 37
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Turkish:
rubidyum
— element with atomic number 37
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Ukrainian:
рубі́дій
(rubídij)
— element with atomic number 37
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Uyghur:
رۇبىدىي
(rubidiy)
— element with atomic number 37
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Uzbek:
rubidiy
— element with atomic number 37
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Uzbek:
рубидий
(rubidiy)
— element with atomic number 37
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Vietnamese:
rubiđi
— element with atomic number 37
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Volapük:
rubidin
— element with atomic number 37
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Welsh:
rwbidiwm
— element with atomic number 37