tantalum

English

Chemical element
Ta
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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 after Tantalus, alluding to the element's incapacity to absorb acid. See -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăn'tələm, IPA^(key): /ˈtæntələm/

Noun

tantalum (countable and uncountable, plural tantalums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Ta) with atomic number 73: a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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 (af)
• Albanian: tantal
• Arabic: تَنْتَالُم‎ m (tantālum)
• Armenian: տանտալ (hy) (tantal)
• Asturian: tántalu m
• Basque: tantalioa
• Belarusian: танта́л m (tantál)
• Breton: tantal
• Bulgarian: танта́л m (tantál)
• Catalan: tàntal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉭／钽 (zh) (tǎn)

• Cornish: tantalum
• Czech: tantal (cs)
• Danish: tantal (da)
• Dutch: tantaal (nl) n, tantalium (nl) n
• Esperanto: tantalo (eo)
• Estonian: tantaal (et)
• Faroese: tantal
• Finnish: tantaali (fi)
• French: tantale (fr) m
• Friulian: tantali
• Galician: tántalo (gl) m
• Georgian: ტანტალი (ṭanṭali)
• German: Tantal (de) n
• Greek: ταντάλιο (el) n (tantálio)
• Hebrew: טנטלום‎ (he) (tantálum)
• Hindi: सहातु (sahātu)
• Hungarian: tantál (hu)
• Icelandic: tantal (is)
• Irish: tantalam
• Italian: tantalio (it) m
• Japanese: タンタル (ja) (tantaru)
• Kashubian: tantôl
• Kazakh: тантал (tantal)
• Khmer: តង់តាល (tɑngtaal)
• Korean: 탄탈 (ko) (tantal), 탄탈룸 (tantallum), 탄탈럼 (tantalleom)
• Latin: tantalium
• Latvian: tantals
• Lithuanian: tantalas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Tantal
• Macedonian: танта́л m (tantál)
• Malay: tantalum
• Maltese: tantalju
• Manx: tantalum
• Mongolian: тантал (tantal)
• Norwegian: tantal
• Occitan: tantal m
• Polish: tantal (pl) m
• Portuguese: tântalo (pt) m
• Romanian: tantal (ro) n
• Russian: танта́л (ru) m (tantál)
• Scottish Gaelic: tantalam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тантал m

  Roman: tantal (sh) m

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

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Tantalum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “tantalum”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

Danish

Noun

tantalum

1. (now rare) Alternative form of tantal
   • 1870, Mathilde Ørsted, Breve fra og til Hans Christian Ørsted, page 37:

     ... og et nyt Metal, som skal kaldes Tantalum.

     ... and a new metal, which is to be called tantalum.

   • 1975, Tandlægebladet:

     ... individer med tantalum implantater^[sic] i kæberne ...

     ... individuals with tantalum implants in their jaws ...

   • 2002, Taenk + Test:

     Det indeholder grundstoffet tantalum, ...

     It contains the element tantalum, ...

   • 1961, Tidsskrift for sygeplejersker:

     ... bomuld, hør, hamp, syntetiske fibre, rustfrit stål og tantalum, ...

     ... cotton, flax, hemp, synthetic fibers, stainless steel and tantalum, ...

   • 1914, Gads danske magasin:

     Paa dette Omraade har man dog fundet et Erstatningsmiddel i Tantalum, ...

     In this area, a substitute has been found in tantalum, ...

   • 1963, Aarhus universitet, Aarsberetning:

     ... ved behandling […] af cancer vesicae (med radioaktivt tantalum).

     ... by treatment […] of cancer vesicae (using radioactive tantalum).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ta.lum/, [ˈt̪än̪t̪äɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ta.lum/, [ˈt̪än̪t̪älum]

Noun

tantalum n (genitive tantalī); second declension

1. tantalum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tantalum	tantala
Genitive	tantalī	tantalōrum
Dative	tantalō	tantalīs
Accusative	tantalum	tantala
Ablative	tantalō	tantalīs
Vocative	tantalum	tantala

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [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	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

Malay

Chemical element
Ta
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Etymology

From English tantalum, from New Latin [Term?], from Latin tantalus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tantalom], [tantaləm], [tɛntələm]
• Rhymes: -alom, -lom, -om

Noun

tantalum

1. tantalum