rhenium

See also: Rhenium and rhénium

English

Chemical element
Re
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Etymology

From Latin Rhenus (“Rhine”), +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rē'nēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːniəm/

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• Rhymes: -iːniəm

Noun

rhenium (countable and uncountable, plural rheniums)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Re) with an atomic number of 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• eka-rhenium
• rhenic
• rhenium dioxide
• rhenium heptaoxide
• rhenium heptaselenide
• rhenium heptasulfide, rhenium heptasulphide
• rhenium trioxide

Related terms

Related terms

• rhenate
• Rhenish
• Rhine

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: renium (af)
• Albanian: renium
• Arabic: رِنْيُوم m (rinyum)
• Armenian: ռենիում (hy) (ṙenium)
• Asturian: reniu (ast) m
• Basque: renioa
• Belarusian: рэ́ній m (rénij)
• Breton: reniom
• Bulgarian: ре́ний m (rénij)
• Catalan: reni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錸／铼 (zh) (lái)

• Cornish: rhenyum
• Czech: rhenium (cs)
• Danish: rhenium (da) n
• Dutch: renium (nl) n
• Esperanto: renio (eo)
• Estonian: reenium (et)
• Faroese: renium n
• Finnish: renium (fi)
• French: rhénium (fr) m
• Friulian: reni
• Galician: renio (gl) m
• Georgian: რენიუმი (reniumi)
• German: Rhenium (de) n
• Greek: ρήνιο (el) n (rínio)
• Hebrew: רניום (he) m (renyum)
• Hindi: बाष्पातु (bāṣpātu)
• Hungarian: rénium (hu)
• Icelandic: renín (is) n, reníum n
• Irish: réiniam
• Italian: renio (it) m
• Japanese: レニウム (ja) (reniumu)
• Kashubian: rén
• Kazakh: рений (renii)
• Khmer: រេញ៉ូម (reiñoum)
• Korean: 레늄 (ko) (renyum)
• Latin: rhenium (la)
• Latvian: rēnijs
• Lithuanian: renis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Rhenium
• Macedonian: рениум m (renium)
• Malay: renium
• Malayalam: റിനിയം (ml) (ṟiniyaṁ)
• Maltese: rinjum
• Manx: rainium
• Mongolian: рени (reni)
• Norwegian: rhenium
• Occitan: rèni m
• Polish: ren (pl) m
• Portuguese: rénio (pt) m
• Romanian: reniu (ro) n
• Russian: ре́ний (ru) m (rénij)
• Scottish Gaelic: rèiniam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ренијум m, рениј m

  Roman: renijum m, renij (sh) m

• Slovak: rénium n
• Slovene: renij (sl) m
• Spanish: renio (es) m
• Swedish: rhenium (sv) n
• Tajik: рений (reniy)
• Tamil: ரெனியம் (reṉiyam)
• Thai: รีเนียม (rii-nîiam)
• Turkish: renyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ре́ній m (rénij)
• Uzbek: reniy (uz), рений (reniy)
• Vietnamese: reni
• Volapük: renin (vo)
• Welsh: rheniwm (cy)
• West Frisian: rhenium

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Rhenium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “rhenium”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• inhumer

Danish

Noun

rhenium

1. rhenium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.ni.um/, [ˈreːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ni.um/, [ˈrɛːnium]

Noun

rhēnium n (genitive rhēniī); second declension

1. rhenium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rhēnium	rhēnia
Genitive	rhēniī	rhēniōrum
Dative	rhēniō	rhēniīs
Accusative	rhēnium	rhēnia
Ablative	rhēniō	rhēniīs
Vocative	rhēnium	rhēnia

Swedish

Chemical element
Re
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Noun

rhenium n (uncountable)

1. rhenium

Declension

Declension of rhenium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rhenium	rheniumet	—	—
Genitive	rheniums	rheniumets	—	—