chromium

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Chemical element
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Chromium crystals and cube.

Etymology

From New Latin, from French chrome, from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrōma, “color”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreu (“to grind, rub”)) + -ium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

chromium (uncountable)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24.

Synonyms

• chrome (when used for plating)

Derived terms

Derived terms

chromiferous chromium-52 chromium-53 chromium-54 chromium carbide chromium dioxide chromium trifluoride chromium oxide

chromium plate chromium-plated chromium plating chromium sesquioxide chromium trichloride chromium trifluoride chromium trioxide chromo- ferrochromium

Related terms

Related terms

chroma chromate chrome chromic

chromite chromo- chromous panchromium

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: chroom (af)
• Albanian: krom (sq)
• Arabic: كروم (ar) (kruum) m
• Armenian: քրոմ (hy) (k‘rom)
• Asturian: cromu (ast) m
• Azeri: xrom (az)
• Basque: kromoa (eu)
• Belarusian: хром (be) (xrom) m
• Breton: krom (br) m
• Bulgarian: хром (bg) (hrom) m
• Catalan: crom (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉻 (cmn), 铬 (cmn) (gè)

• Cornish: cromyum (kw)
• Czech: chrom (cs)
• Danish: krom (da)
• Dutch: chroom (nl) n
• Esperanto: kromo (eo)
• Estonian: kroom (et)
• Faroese: krom (fo)
• Finnish: kromi (fi)
• French: chrome (fr) m
• Friulian: crom (fur)
• Galician: cromo (gl)
• Georgian: ქრომი (ka) (k'romi)
• German: Chrom (de) n
• Greek: χρώμιο (el) (chrómio) n
• Hebrew: כרום (he) (krom)
• Hindi: वर्णातु (hi) (varnaatu)
• Hungarian: króm (hu)
• Icelandic: króm (is)
• Interlingua: chromo (ia)
• Irish: cróimiam (ga) m
• Italian: cromo (it) m
• Japanese: クロム (ja) (kuromu)
• Kashubian: chróm (csb)

• Kazakh: хром (kk) (khrom)
• Korean: 크롬 (ko) (keurom), 크로뮴 (ko) (keuromyum)
• Latin: chrōmium (la) n
• Latvian: hroms (lv)
• Lithuanian: chromas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Chrom (lb)
• Macedonian: хром (mk) (hrom) m
• Malay: kromium (ms)
• Maltese: kromju (mt)
• Manx: cromium (gv)
• Mongolian: хром (mn) (khrom)
• Norwegian: krom (no)
• Persian: کروم (fa) (korom)
• Polish: chrom (pl) m
• Portuguese: cromo (pt) m, crómio (pt) m
• Romanian: crom (ro) n
• Russian: хром (ru) (xrom) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cròimiam (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: хром (sh) m, hrom (sh) m, кром (sh) m, krom (sh) m
• Slovak: chróm (sk)
• Slovene: krom (sl)
• Spanish: cromo (es) m
• Swedish: krom (sv) n
• Tagalog: kromo (tl)
• Tajik: хром (tg) (hrom)
• Tamil: நீலிரும்பு (ta) (neelirumbu)
• Thai: โครเมียม (th) (khrōmiam)
• Turkish: krom (tr)
• Ukrainian: хром (uk) (xrom) m
• Urdu: کرومیم (ur)
• Uzbek: хром (uz) (khrom)
• Vietnamese: crom (vi)
• Volapük: kromin (vo)
• Welsh: cromiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: groom (fy)
• Yiddish: קראָומיאַם (yi) (krovmiam)

See also

• green rouge

External links

• chromium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• chromium in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• chromium at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Noun

chrōmium (genitive chrōmiī); n, second declension

1. chromium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	chrōmium	chrōmia
genitive	chrōmiī	chrōmiōrum
dative	chrōmiō	chrōmiīs
accusative	chrōmium	chrōmia
ablative	chrōmiō	chrōmiīs
vocative	chrōmium	chrōmia