Tantalum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 155 anagrams from letters in tantalum (aalmnttu).
1795-1805; New Latin; named after Tantalus
The raw materials— tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—were dubbed “conflict minerals.”
tantalum helps you send text messages, tin is the solder on every circuit board and gold is the little connecting piece.
The tantalum lamp had no opportunity to become established, because the tungsten lamp followed its appearance very closely.
The oxide of tantalum dissolves in the bead, but gives no colour.
Just to make sure of cleaning up the last infinitesimal traces, though, I'm going to flash a getter charge of tantalum in it.
tantalum is used to protect interconnects inside microprocessors.
If the first figure of the last pair was assumed to be a null, the word was the symbol for tantalum: "Ta."
A century elapsed after its discovery before von Bolton produced the first tantalum filament lamp.
In China, for example, tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold are mined and ore is imported from other countries.
Tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold are used to produce many common consumer electronics devices.