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

• 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
• technetic

Related terms

• pertechnetate

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: tegnesium (af)
• Albanian: teknec
• Arabic: تِكْنِيتِيُوم m (tiknītiyūm)
• Armenian: տեխնեցիում (texnecʻium)
• Asturian: tecneciu 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)
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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

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Danish

Noun

technetium

1. technetium

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Dutch

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

technetium n (uncountable)

1. technetium

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tæxˈneː˨ʃɔ˧m]

Noun

technetium n

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

Inflection

Declension of technetium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	technetium	technetia	technetieke	technetiekes
Genitive	technetiums	technetia	technetiekes	technetiekes
Locative	technetieës	technetieëser	technetieëske	technetieëskes
Dative¹	technetiumme	—	technetieke	—
Accusative¹	technetium	—	technetieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.