The Elements
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Name |Sym-|Atomic
Weight|
|bol | O=16 | H=1 |
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Aluminum |
Al | 27.1 | 26.9|
Antimony(Stibium)
Argon
Arsenic
Barium
Beryllium (see Glucinum)
Bismuth
Boron
Bromine
Cadmium
Caesium
Calcium
Carbon
Cerium
Chlorine
Chromium
Cobalt
Columbium
Copper
(Cuprum)
Erbium
Fluorine
Gadolinium
Gallium
Germanium
Glucinum
Gold
Helium
Hydrogen
Indium
Iodine
Iridium
Iron
(Ferrum)
Krypton
Lanthanum
Lead (Plumbum)
Lithium
Magnesium
Manganese
Mercury (Hydrargyrum)
Molybdenum
Neodymium
Neon
Nickel
Niobium
(see Columbium)
Nirogen
Osmium
Oxygen
Palladium
Phosphorus
Platinum
Potassium (Kalium)
Praseodymium
Rhodium
Rubidium
Ruthenium
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The Elements — continued
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Name
Samarium
Scandium
Selenium
Silicon
Silver
(Argentum)
Sodium (Natrium)
Strontium
Sulphur
Tantalum
Tellurium
Thallium
Thorium
Thulium
Tin (Stannum)
Titanium
Tungsten
(Wolframium)
Uranium
Vanadium
Wolfranium (see Tungsten)
Xenon
Ytterbium
Yttrium
Zinc
Zirconium
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Several other elements have been announced, as holmium, vesbium, austrium, etc., but their properties,
and in some cases their existence, have not yet been definitely established.
3. One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of
written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any
simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz,
feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.
The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
Jowett 4. (a) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of
the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb. (b) (Anat.) One of the smallest natural
divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.
5. (Biol.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable
organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.
6. (Math.) (a) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as,
in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an
indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.
(b) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve,
or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former. (c) One of the terms in an
algebraic expression.
7. One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions
are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.
8. pl. The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as,
the elements of geometry, or of music.
9. pl. Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in
question; as, the elements of a plan.
10. One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles
of matter. (a) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire; whence it is said, water is the proper
element of fishes; air is the element of birds. Hence, the state or sphere natural to anything or suited for
its existence.
Of elements
The grosser feeds the purer: Earth the Sea;
Earth and the Sea feed Air; the Air those Fires
Ethereal.
