Definitions for indiums

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indiums in·di·um

Spelling: [in-dee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈɪn di əm/

Indiums is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in indiums (diimnsu).

Definitions for indiums

noun

1. a rare metallic element, soft, white, malleable, and easily fusible, found combined in various ore minerals, especially sphalerite: so called from the two indigo-blue lines in its spectrum. Symbol: In; atomic weight: 114.82; atomic number: 49; specific gravity: 7.3 at 20°C.

Origin of indiums

1860-65; New Latin, equivalent to ind(icum) indigo + -ium -ium

Examples for indiums

indium, in′di-um, n. a soft malleable silver-white metallic element.

Precipitation with sulphuretted hydrogen does not give exact results on account of the solubility of the indium sulphide.

III a.—Aluminium, gallium and indium were examined from this group.

In properties gallium is more or less intermediate between the metals aluminium and indium.

indium, a metallic elementary body of rare occurrence, and first discovered in zinc-blende in 1863.

Lecoq de Boisbaudran and E. Jungfleisch, on the extraction of gallium from the ores in which it is found associated with indium.

Antimony follows closely in the track of gallium and indium, the upper ring of spheres being identical.

The following process for the detection of indium in zinc-blende, and its extraction from the same source, is given by Winkler.

When examined by means of the spectroscope, the flame of indium reveals two brilliant bands—a violet and a blue one.

indium oxide, In2O3, is a yellow powder which is formed on ignition of the hydroxide.