technetium

See also: Technetium and technétium

English

Chemical element
Tc
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek τεχνητός (tekhnētós, “artificial, manmade”) + -ium, because it was the first manmade element synthesized.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: těknē'shēəm, -shəm, IPA^(key): /tɛkˈni.ʃi.əm/, /-ʃəm/

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Noun

technetium (uncountable)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Tc) with an atomic number of 43.

Synonyms

• eka-manganese, ekamanganese (name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of technetium in his periodic table)
• masurium (proposed name; obsolete)

Derived terms

• technetium-99m generator
• technetium cow
• technetium star
• technetic

Related terms

• pertechnetate

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: tegnesium (af)
• Albanian: teknec
• Arabic: تِكْنِيتِيُوم m (tiknītiyūm)
• Armenian: տեխնեցիում (texnecʻium)
• Asturian: tecneciu (ast) m
• Basque: teknezioa
• Belarusian: тэхне́цый m (texnjécyj)
• Breton: teknetiom
• Bulgarian: техне́ций m (tehnécij)
• Catalan: tecneci (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 锝 (zh) (dé), 鎝／𨱏 (zh) (tǎ)

• Cornish: technytyum
• Czech: technecium (cs)
• Danish: technetium (da)
• Dutch: technetium (nl) n
• Esperanto: teknecio (eo), teĥnecio
• Estonian: tehneetsium (et)
• Faroese: technetium
• Finnish: technetium (fi)
• French: technétium (fr) m
• Friulian: tecnezi
• Galician: tecnecio (gl)
• Georgian: ტექნეციუმი (ṭekneciumi)
• German: Technetium (de) n
• Greek: τεχνήτιο (el) n (technítio)
• Hebrew: טכנתיום (tekhnétyum)
• Hindi: चेष्टातु (ceṣṭātu)
• Hungarian: technécium (hu)
• Icelandic: teknetín (is)
• Interlingua: technetium
• Irish: teicnéitiam (ga) m
• Italian: tecnezio (it) m, tecneto m
• Japanese: テクネチウム (ja) (tekunechiumu)
• Kashubian: technet
• Kazakh: технеций (texnesii)
• Korean: 테크네튬 (ko) (tekeunetyum)
• Latvian: tehnēcijs
• Lithuanian: technecis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Technetium
• Macedonian: технециум m (tehnecium)
• Malay: teknetium
• Maltese: teknezju
• Manx: çheghnaiçhum
• Mongolian: технеци (texneci)
• Norwegian: technetium
• Occitan: tecnèci m
• Polish: technet (pl) m
• Portuguese: tecnécio (pt) m
• Romanian: technețiu (ro) n
• Russian: техне́ций (ru) m (texnécij)
• Scottish Gaelic: teicnèitiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: технициjум m

  Roman: tehnicijum m

• Slovak: technécium (sk)
• Slovene: tehnecij (sl)
• Spanish: tecnecio (es) m
• Swedish: teknetium (sv) n
• Tagalog: teknesyo
• Tajik: tehneci'
• Tamil: பசகன் (ta) (pacakaṉ)
• Thai: เทคนีเชียม (ték-nii-chîiam)
• Turkish: teknetyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: техне́цій m (texnécij)
• Uzbek: texnetsiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: tecnexi
• Welsh: technetiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: technetium

See also

• moly cow

Further reading

• technetium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

technetium

1. technetium

Dutch

Chemical element
Tc
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Next: ruthenium (Ru)

Pronunciation

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Noun

technetium n (uncountable)

1. technetium

Latin

Chemical element
Tc
Previous: molybdaenum (Mo)
Next: ruthenium (Ru)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tekʰˈneː.ti.um/, [t̪ɛkʰˈneːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tekˈnet.t͡si.um/, [t̪ekˈnɛt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

technētium n (genitive technētiī); second declension

1. technetium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	technētium	technētia
Genitive	technētiī	technētiōrum
Dative	technētiō	technētiīs
Accusative	technētium	technētia
Ablative	technētiō	technētiīs
Vocative	technētium	technētia

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tæxˈneː˨ʃɔ˧m]

Noun

technetium n

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