tantalum

English

Chemical element
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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, named in honor of Tantalus. See -ium.

Noun

tantalum (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Ta) with an atomic number of 73.

Derived terms

Derived terms

eka-tantalum tantalate tantalian tantalic tantalous tantalum carbide

tantalum dioxide tantalum lamp tantalum oxide tantalum pentachloride tantalum pentoxide tanteuxenite

Related terms

Related terms

coltan Tantalean Tantalic

tantalise, tantalize tantalite Tantalus

Translations

A metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 73.

• Afrikaans: tantaal
• Albanian: tantal (sq)
• Arabic: تنتالم (tantālum) m
• Armenian: տանտալ (hy) (tantal) 
• Asturian: tántalu (ast) m
• Basque: tantalioa
• Belarusian: тантал (be) (tantál) m 
• Breton: tantal
• Bulgarian: тантал (bg) (tantál) m 
• Catalan: tàntal
• Chinese: 鉭 (dàn)
• Cornish: tantalum
• Czech: tantal (cs)
• Danish: tantal (da)
• Dutch: tantaal (nl) n, tantalium (nl) n
• Esperanto: tantalo (eo)
• Estonian: tantaal (et)
• Faroese: tantal (fo)
• Finnish: tantaali (fi)
• French: tantale (fr) m
• Friulian: tantali
• Galician: tántalo
• Georgian: ტანტალი (tantali)
• German: Tantal (de) n
• Greek: ταντάλιο (el) (tantálio) n 
• Hebrew: טנטלום (tantálum)
• Hindi: सहातु (hi) (sahaatu)
• Hungarian: tantál (hu)
• Icelandic: tantal (is)
• Irish: tantalam
• Italian: tantalio (it) m
• Japanese: タンタル (ja) (tantaru)
• Kashubian: tantôl
• Kazakh: тантал (kk) (tantal) 

• Korean: 탄탈 (tantal), 탄탈룸 (tantallum)
• Latin: tantalium (la)
• Latvian: tantals
• Lithuanian: tantalas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Tantal
• Macedonian: тантал (tantál) m
• Malay: tantalum (ms)
• Maltese: tantalju
• Manx: tantalum
• Mongolian: тантал (mn) (tantal) 
• Norwegian: tantal (no)
• Polish: tantal (pl) m
• Portuguese: tântalo (pt) m
• Romanian: tantal (ro) n
• Russian: тантал (ru) (tantál) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: tantalam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тантал (sh) m

  Roman: tantal (sh)

• Slovak: tantal (sk)
• Slovene: tantal (sl)
• Spanish: tántalo (es) m
• Swedish: tantal (sv)
• Tajik: tantal
• Tamil: தந்தாலம் (tantālam)
• Thai: แทนทาลัม (thaentālam)
• Turkish: tantal (tr)
• Ukrainian: тантал (uk) (tantál) m 
• Uzbek: тантал (uz) (tantal)
• Vietnamese: tantali (vi), tantan (vi)
• Volapük: tantalin (vo)
• Welsh: tantalwm
• West Frisian: tantaal

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Latin

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Noun

tantalum (genitive tantalī); n, second declension

1. tantalum

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	tantalum	tantala
genitive	tantalī	tantalōrum
dative	tantalō	tantalīs
accusative	tantalum	tantala
ablative	tantalō	tantalīs
vocative	tantalum	tantala

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [tɑ˧nˈʃaː˨lɔ˧m]

Noun

tantalum n

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

Inflection

Declension of tantalum

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	tantalum	tantala	tantaleke	tantalekes
Genitive	tantalums	tantala	tantalekes	tantalekes
Locative	tantaleës	tantaleëser	tantaleëske	tantaleëskes
Dative¹	tantalumme	—	tantaleke	—
Accusative¹	tantalum	—	tantaleke	—

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

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Chemical element
Ta	Previous: hafnium (Hf)
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Etymology

From English tantalum, from New Latin, from Latin tantalus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [tantalom], [tantaləm], [tɛntələm]
• Rhymes: -alom, -lom, -om

Noun

tantalum

1. tantalum (chemical element)