thallium

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English

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thallium

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Chemical element
Tl
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Next: lead (Pb)

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós, “green branch”) (after the color of the radiation spectra), +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thăl'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈθæliəm/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æliəm

Noun

thallium (countable and uncountable, plural thalliums)

2. A metallic chemical element (symbol Tl) with atomic number 81: a gray post-transition metal that discolors when exposed to air.
   • 2021 January 27, Li You, “Northwest China Reports Thallium Pollution in Yangtze Tributary”, in Bibek Bhandari, editor, Sixth Tone‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2021‎:

     Environmental authorities in Lüeyang County, Shaanxi province, discovered excessive levels of thallium in two of the Jialing River’s upstream tributaries on Jan. 20, according to a statement Monday. The concentration of thallium that day was 170% higher than the standard for Qingni River, one of the upstream tributaries bordering Gansu province.

3. A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• eka-thallium
• thallane
• thallic
• thalliferous
• thallious
• thallium-activated
• thallium glass
• thallium green
• thallium hydroxide
• thallium line
• thallium monofluoride
• thallium monoxide
• thallium oxide
• thallium sulfate, thallium sulphate
• thallium sulfide, thallium sulphide
• thallium trioxide
• thallous
• thall-, thallo-

Related terms

• thallate

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: tallium (af) Albanian: talium Arabic: ثَالْيُوم m (ṯālyūm) Armenian: թալիում (hy) (tʻalium) Asturian: taliu (ast) m Basque: talioa Belarusian: та́лій m (tálij) Breton: taliom Bulgarian: та́ллий m (tállij) Catalan: tal·li (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 鉈 / 铊 (zh) (tā) Cornish: thalyum Czech: thallium (cs) Danish: thallium (da) Dutch: thallium (nl) n Esperanto: talio (eo) Estonian: tallium (et) Faroese: tallium n Finnish: tallium (fi) French: thallium (fr) m Friulian: tali Galician: talio (gl) Georgian: თალიუმი (taliumi) German: Thallium (de) n Greek: θάλλιο (el) n (thállio) Hebrew: תליום (he) (tályum) Hindi: सिक्ष्यातु (sikṣyātu) Hungarian: tallium (hu) Icelandic: þallín (is) Irish: tailliam Italian: tallio (it) m Japanese: タリウム (ja) (tariumu) Kashubian: tôl Kazakh: таллий (tallii) Korean: 탈륨 (ko) (tallyum) Latin: thallium (la) Latvian: tallijs Lithuanian: talis (lt) Luxembourgish: Thallium Macedonian: талиум (talium) Malay: talium Maltese: tallju Manx: thallium Mongolian: талли (talli) Norwegian: thallium Occitan: talli m Polish: tal (pl) m Portuguese: tálio (pt) m Romanian: taliu (ro) n Russian: та́ллий (ru) m (tállij) Scottish Gaelic: tailliam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: талиjум m, талиj m Roman: talijum, talij (sh) Slovak: tálium n Slovene: talij (sl) Spanish: talio (es) m Swedish: tallium (sv) Tajik: таллий (talliy) Tamil: தல்லியம் (talliyam) Thai: แทลเลียม (tɛɛl-lîiam) Turkish: talyum (tr) Ukrainian: та́лій m (tálij) Uzbek: talliy (uz), таллий (uz) (talliy) Vietnamese: tali (vi) Volapük: talin (vo) Welsh: thaliwm (cy) West Frisian: thallium Yiddish: טאַליום m (talyum)

See also

• crookesite
• hutchinsonite
• lorandite

Further reading

• thallium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “thallium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

thallium

Wikipedia ^da

Chemical element
Tl
Previous: kviksølv (Hg)
Next: bly (Pb)

Alternative forms

• tallium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós) +‎ -ium.

Noun

thallium n (singular definite thalliummet, not used in plural form)

1. thallium

Declension

Declension of thallium

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	thallium	thalliummet
genitive	thalliums	thalliummets

References

• “thallium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

thallium

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
Tl
Previous: kwik (Hg)
Next: lood (Pb)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

thallium n (uncountable)

1. thallium

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

thallium

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ljɔm/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Noun

thallium m (uncountable)

1. thallium

Descendants

• → Turkish: talyum

Further reading

• “thallium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

thallium

Wikipedia ^la

Chemical element
Tl
Previous: hydrargyrum (Hg)
Next: plumbum (Pb)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰal.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪al.li.um]

Noun

thallium n (genitive thalliī); second declension

1. thallium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	thallium	thallia
genitive	thalliī	thalliōrum
dative	thalliō	thalliīs
accusative	thallium	thallia
ablative	thalliō	thalliīs
vocative	thallium	thallia

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈðɑ˦ʎɔ˧m]

Noun

thallium n

1. (uncountable) thallium
2. A part of thallium