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/ɹuːbˈɪdiəm/
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NOUN
- a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite
How To Use rubidium In A Sentence
- These elements - lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium and francium - all react with water to give solutions that change the color of a vegetable dye from red to blue.
- 7: Nice touch of science, but it'd have to be a pretty high room temperature for cesium, francium, gallium and rubidium to melt--the lowest melting point among them is francium's 300 degrees Kelvin, which is 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Archive 2007-04-01
- Elements such as rubidium, zirconium, and aluminum are mostly incorporated into human biochemistry as a consequence of their association with essential elements present in the human diet.
- Rubidium and cesium flames are reddish violet or magenta.
- Later, we also grew crystals of potassium and rubidium benzyl-penicillin, hoping again for isomorphous series. Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules
- They discovered two new elements, caesium and rubidium in the course of their investigations.
- Reasonable permeation free energy profiles are obtained for potassium, rubidium, and cesium; binding wells are shallow and the central barrier is small.
- They mapped the patterns made by known elements and discovered many new ones, including rubidium and cesium.
- The ratio of the amount of the element produced to rubidium remaining in the sample is one of the methods that is being used by geologists to determine the age of the rocks of the Earth.
- However, water-soluble rubidium, cesium, thallium, and silver minerals are virtually nonexistent and should pose no complication.