columbium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of columbium
1801; Columb(ia) (a literary name for the United States of America) + -ium
Example Sentences
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Almost all the world's supply of columbium ore comes from primitive mines in Nigeria; the U.S. was able to get only 1,727,000 Ibs. last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Air Force wanted titanium desperately not only in its pure state but as an ideal substitute for columbium as a hardening agent in alloys.
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U.S. military production desperately needs titanium as a substitute for columbium, a rare metal which makes steel fit to stand the 1,600� hellfire inside a jet-engine combustion chamber.
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If they cannot, the engine program will fail because there is not enough nickel, columbium, etc. in sight now to build the engines scheduled in 1953.
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Colum′bate, a salt or compound of columbic acid with a base; Colum′bite, the native ore of columbium; Colum′bium, a metallic element now called niobium.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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