chemical element

1. See element .

Example Sentences

Most of the atoms in a newborn star system are hydrogen, which is the lightest chemical element.

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The chemical element is as much a manysided system as the organic cell or the whole vegetable kingdom.

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Selenium, the chemical element used in the operation, transmits the sound to the telephone, and your spoken word is reproduced.

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We take it as 18, because it contains eighteen ultimate atoms, the smallest number we have found in a chemical element.

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This principle of the “conservation of weight” led at once to a simple and unmistakable definition of a chemical element.

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When a substance unites with the active chemical element in air—the oxygen gas—it is said to be oxidised.

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