rhenium

See also: Rhenium and rhénium

English

Chemical element (edit)
Re Atomic number 75 rhenium
Classification data Period 6 Group 7 Block d-block Class transition metal
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English Wikipedia article on Rhenium

Etymology

From Latin Rhenus (“Rhine”), +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːniəm

Noun

rhenium (countable and uncountable, plural rheniums)

2. A metallic chemical element with the atomic number 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition metal.

   Alternative form: Re (symbol)

   • 2001 April 16, J. Michael Davis, “Manganese and Rhenium”, in Patty's Toxicology, →DOI:

     Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.

3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• dirhenium
• dodecarhenium
• eka-rhenium
• organorhenium
• oxorhenium
• radiorhenium
• rhenian
• rhenic
• rhenium dioxide
• rhenium heptaoxide
• rhenium heptaselenide
• rhenium heptasulfide, rhenium heptasulphide
• rhenium trioxide
• trirhenium

Related terms

• rhenate
• Rhenish
• Rhine

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: renium (af)
• Albanian: renium
• Arabic: رِينِيُوم m (rīniyūm)
• 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
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: rhenium

• 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), റീനിയം (ṟīniyaṁ)
• 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

  Latin: renijum m, renij (sh) m

• Slovak: rénium (sk) 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)
• Uyghur: رېنىي (ug) (rëniy)
• Uzbek: reniy (uz), рений (reniy)
• Vietnamese: reni
• Volapük: renin (vo)
• Welsh: rheniwm (cy)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Rhenium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “rhenium”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.

Anagrams

• inhumer

Danish

Chemical element (edit)
Re Atomic number 75 rhenium
Classification data Period 6 Group 7 Block d-block Class transition metal
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Etymology

From Latin Rhenus +‎ -ium.

Noun

rhenium n (singular definite rheniummet, not used in plural form)

1. rhenium

Declension

Declension of rhenium

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	rhenium	rheniummet
genitive	rheniums	rheniummets

References

• “rhenium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Chemical element (edit)
Re Atomic number 75 rhenium
Classification data Period 6 Group 7 Block d-block Class transition metal
Previous: ← wolframium (W)
Next: osmium (Os) →

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʰeː.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.ni.um]

Noun

rhēnium n (genitive rhēniī); second declension

1. rhenium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rhēnium	rhēnia
genitive	rhēniī	rhēniōrum
dative	rhēniō	rhēniīs
accusative	rhēnium	rhēnia
ablative	rhēniō	rhēniīs
vocative	rhēnium	rhēnia

Swedish

Chemical element (edit)
Re Atomic number 75 rhenium
Classification data Period 6 Group 7 Block d-block Class transition metal
Previous: ← volfram (W)
Next: osmium (Os) →

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

rhenium n (uncountable)

1. rhenium

Declension

Declension of rhenium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rhenium	rheniums
	definite	rheniumet	rheniumets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Declension of rhenium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rhenium	rheniums
	definite	rheniet	rheniets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Declension of rhenium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rhenium	rheniums
	definite	rhenium	rheniums
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• “rhenium”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “rhenium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “rhenium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH