tantalum

English

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tantalum

Wikipedia

Chemical element
Ta
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Alternative forms

• tantalium (obsolete)

Etymology

A New Latin word derived by Swedish chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg in 1802, from Latin Tantalus,^[1] named after Tantalus, alluding to the element's incapacity to absorb acid. See -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăn'tələm, IPA^(key): /ˈtæntələm/

Noun

tantalum (countable and uncountable, plural tantalums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Ta) with atomic number 73: a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant.

Derived terms

• eka-tantalum
• tantalate
• tantalian
• tantalic
• tantalous
• tantalum carbide
• tantalum dioxide
• tantalum lamp
• tantalum oxide
• tantalum pentachloride
• tantalum pentoxide
• tanteuxenite

Related terms

• coltan
• Tantalean
• Tantalic
• tantalise, tantalize
• tantalite
• Tantalus

Translations

element

Afrikaans: tantaal (af) Albanian: tantal Arabic: تَنْتَالُم m (tantālum) Armenian: տանտալ (hy) (tantal) Asturian: tántalu m Basque: tantalioa Belarusian: танта́л m (tantál) Breton: tantal Bulgarian: танта́л m (tantál) Catalan: tàntal (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 鉭 / 钽 (zh) (tǎn) Cornish: tantalum Czech: tantal (cs) Danish: tantal (da) Dutch: tantaal (nl) n, tantalium (nl) n Esperanto: tantalo (eo) Estonian: tantaal (et) Faroese: tantal Finnish: tantaali (fi) French: tantale (fr) m Friulian: tantali Galician: tántalo (gl) m Georgian: ტანტალი (ṭanṭali) German: Tantal (de) n Greek: ταντάλιο (el) n (tantálio) Hebrew: טנטלום (he) (tantálum) Hindi: सहातु (sahātu) Hungarian: tantál (hu) Icelandic: tantal (is) Irish: tantalam Italian: tantalio (it) m Japanese: タンタル (ja) (tantaru) Kashubian: tantôl Kazakh: тантал (tantal) Khmer: តង់តាល (tɑngtaal) Korean: 탄탈 (ko) (tantal), 탄탈룸 (tantallum), 탄탈럼 (tantalleom) Latin: tantalium Latvian: tantals Lithuanian: tantalas (lt) Luxembourgish: Tantal Macedonian: танта́л m (tantál) Malay: tantalum Maltese: tantalju Manx: tantalum Mongolian: тантал (tantal) Norwegian: tantal Occitan: tantal m Polish: tantal (pl) m Portuguese: tântalo (pt) m Romanian: tantal (ro) n Russian: танта́л (ru) m (tantál) Scottish Gaelic: tantalam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тантал m Roman: tantal (sh) m Slovak: tantal (sk) m Slovene: tantal (sl) Spanish: tántalo (es) m Swedish: tantal (sv) Tajik: тантал (tantal) Tamil: தந்தாலம் (tantālam) Thai: แทนทาลัม (tɛɛn-taa-lâm) Turkish: tantal (tr) Ukrainian: танта́л m (tantál) Uzbek: tantal (uz), тантал (uz) (tantal) Vietnamese: tantali, tantan Volapük: tantalin (vo) Welsh: tantalwm (cy) West Frisian: tantaal

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Tantalum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “tantalum”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

1. Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988

Danish

Noun

tantalum

1. (now rare) Alternative form of tantal
   • 1870, Mathilde Ørsted, Breve fra og til Hans Christian Ørsted, page 37:

     ... og et nyt Metal, som skal kaldes Tantalum.

     ... and a new metal, which is to be called tantalum.

   • 1975, Tandlægebladet:

     ... individer med tantalum implantater^[sic] i kæberne ...

     ... individuals with tantalum implants in their jaws ...

   • 2002, Taenk + Test:

     Det indeholder grundstoffet tantalum, ...

     It contains the element tantalum, ...

   • 1961, Tidsskrift for sygeplejersker:

     ... bomuld, hør, hamp, syntetiske fibre, rustfrit stål og tantalum, ...

     ... cotton, flax, hemp, synthetic fibers, stainless steel and tantalum, ...

   • 1914, Gads danske magasin:

     Paa dette Omraade har man dog fundet et Erstatningsmiddel i Tantalum, ...

     In this area, a substitute has been found in tantalum, ...

   • 1963, Aarhus universitet, Aarsberetning:

     ... ved behandling […] af cancer vesicae (med radioaktivt tantalum).

     ... by treatment […] of cancer vesicae (using radioactive tantalum).

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

tantalum

Wikipedia ^la

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ta.lum/, [ˈt̪än̪t̪äɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ta.lum/, [ˈt̪än̪t̪älum]

Noun

tantalum n (genitive tantalī); second declension

1. tantalum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tantalum	tantala
genitive	tantalī	tantalōrum
dative	tantalō	tantalīs
accusative	tantalum	tantala
ablative	tantalō	tantalīs
vocative	tantalum	tantala

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɑ˧nˈʃaː˨lɔ˧m]

Noun

tantalum n

1. (uncountable) tantalum
2. A part of tantalum

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

tantalum

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
Ta
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Etymology

From English tantalum, from Latin Tantalus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tantalom], [tantaləm], [tɛntələm]
• Rhymes: -alom, -lom, -om

Noun

tantalum

1. tantalum