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"a metallic compound" "metallic luster" "the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"adjectivecontaining or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal
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nouna fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal
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nouna yarn made partly or entirely of metal
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- i a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)
- in a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite
- be a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
- as a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
- am a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms
- o a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
- c an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
- y a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys
- p a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
- n a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues