chromium

See also: Chromium

English

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chromium

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Chemical element
Cr
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Chromium crystals and cube.

Etymology

From New Latin, from French chrome (from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”)) + -ium. So called because of the striking colors of its compounds.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: krō'mē-əm; IPA^(key): /ˈkɹoʊ.mi.əm/

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Noun

chromium (countable and uncountable, plural chromiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.

Synonyms

• chrome (when used for plating)

Derived terms

• Chromel
• chromiferous
• chromium-52
• chromium-53
• chromium-54
• chromium carbide
• chromium dioxide
• chromium group
• chromium oxide
• chromium plate
• chromium-plated
• chromium plating
• chromium sesquioxide
• chromium trichloride
• chromium trifluoride
• chromium trioxide
• chromo-
• chromoly
• dichromium
• ferrochromium
• nonchromium
• organochromium
• radiochromium

Related terms

• chroma
• chromate
• chrome
• chromic
• chromite
• chromo-
• chromous
• panchromium

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: chroom (af) Albanian: krom (sq) m Arabic: كْرُوم m (krūm) Armenian: քրոմ (hy) (kʻrom) Asturian: cromu (ast) m Azerbaijani: xrom Basque: kromoa Belarusian: хром m (xrom) Breton: krom (br) m Bulgarian: хром (bg) m (hrom) Burmese: ခရိုမီယမ် (hka.ruimiyam) Catalan: crom (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 鉻 / 铬 (zh) (gè) Cornish: cromyum Czech: chrom (cs) m Danish: krom (da) n Dutch: chroom (nl) n Esperanto: kromo (eo) Estonian: kroom (et) Faroese: krom n Finnish: kromi (fi) French: chrome (fr) m Friulian: crom Galician: cromo (gl) m Georgian: ქრომი (kromi) German: Chrom (de) n Greek: χρώμιο (el) n (chrómio) Greenlandic: kromi Gujarati: વર્ણાતુ (varṇātu) Hebrew: כְּרוֹם (he) m (krom) Hindi: वर्णातु (varṇātu), क्रोमियम (kromiyam) Hungarian: króm (hu) Icelandic: króm (is) n Ido: kromo (io) Interlingua: chromo Irish: cróimiam (ga) m Italian: cromo (it) m Japanese: クロム (ja) (kuromu) Kashubian: chróm m Kazakh: хром (xrom) Khmer: ក្រូម (kroum) Korean: 크롬 (ko) (keurom), 크로뮴 (ko) (keuromyum) Kyrgyz: хром (ky) (hrom) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: chrōmium (la) n Latvian: hroms m Lingala: kolomo class 9a/10a Lithuanian: chromas (lt) m Luxembourgish: Chrom Macedonian: хром (mk) m (hrom) Malay: kromium (ms) Maltese: kromju Manx: cromium Maori: koromiama, konupūmura, konukita Mongolian: хром (mn) (xrom) Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: krom (no) n Nynorsk: krom (nn) n Occitan: cròme (oc) m Ottoman Turkish: قروم (qrōm, qırōm, qurōm) Persian: کروم (fa) (korom) Polish: chrom (pl) m Portuguese: cromo (pt) m, crómio (pt) m, crômio (pt) m Romanian: crom (ro) n Russian: хром (ru) m inan (xrom) Scottish Gaelic: cròimiam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хро̏м m Roman: hrȍm (sh) m, krȍm (sh) m (Croatian) Slovak: chróm n Slovene: krom (sl) m inan Spanish: cromo (es) m Swahili: chromi Swedish: krom (sv) n Tagalog: kromo Tajik: хром (xrom) Tamil: நீலிரும்பு (nīlirumpu) Thai: โครเมียม (th) (kroo-mîiam) Tibetan: ཚོན་ལྕགས (tshon lcags, literally “colored iron”) Turkish: krom (tr) Turkmen: hrom Ukrainian: хром m (xrom) Urdu: کرومیم (kromiyam) Uyghur: خروم (xrom) Uzbek: xrom (uz) Cyrillic: хром (uz) (xrom) Vietnamese: crôm Volapük: kromin (vo) Welsh: cromiwm (cy) West Frisian: groom Yiddish: קראָומיאַם (kroumyam)

See also

• green rouge

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Chromium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “chromium”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.
• “chromium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “chromium”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “chromium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

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chromium

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Chemical element
Cr
Previous: vanadium (V)
Next: manganum (Mn)

Etymology

French chrome +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰroː.mi.um/, [ˈkʰroːmiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.mi.um/, [ˈkrɔːmium]

Noun

chrōmium n (genitive chrōmiī); second declension

1. chromium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	chrōmium	chrōmia
genitive	chrōmiī	chrōmiōrum
dative	chrōmiō	chrōmiīs
accusative	chrōmium	chrōmia
ablative	chrōmiō	chrōmiīs
vocative	chrōmium	chrōmia

Descendants

• → Burmese: ခရိုမီယမ် (hka.ruimiyam)
• → Chinese: 鉻 / 铬 (gè)
• → Cornish: cromyum
• → English: chromium
• → Greek: χρώμιο (chrómio)
• → Hindi: क्रोमियम (kromiyam)
• → Irish: cróimiam
• → Korean: 크로뮴 (keuromyum)
• → Malay: kromium
• → Maltese: kromju
• → Manx: cromium
• → Maori: koromiama
• → Portuguese: crómio, crômio
• → Scottish Gaelic: cròimiam
• → Swahili: chromi
• → Thai: โครเมียม (kroo-mîiam)
• → Urdu: کرومیم (kromiyam)
• → Welsh: cromiwm
• → Yiddish: קראָומיאַם (kroumyam)