thulium

See also: Thulium

English

Chemical element (edit)
Tm Atomic number 69 thulium
Classification data Period 6 Group 3 Block f-block Class lanthanide
Previous: ← erbium (Er)
Next: ytterbium (Yb) →
English Wikipedia article on Thulium

Thulium cube and dendrites.

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Thule

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Italic *-om

Latin -umder.

English -ium

English thulium

From Thule (a poetic name for Scandinavia) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thū'lēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈθjuːliəm/; enPR: tho͞o'lēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈθuːliəm/

• Audio (General American); /ˈθjuːliəm/:

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• Audio (US); /ˈθuːliəm/:

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• Rhymes: -uːliəm

Noun

thulium (uncountable)

2. A metallic chemical element (symbol Tm) with atomic number 69: a fairly soft, easily workable metal with a bright silvery-gray lustre.

Derived terms

• dithulium
• radiothulium
• thulate
• thulia
• thulian
• thulium oxide

Related terms

• Thule
• thulite

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: tulium (af)
• Albanian: tulium
• Arabic: ثُولِيُوم m (ṯūliyūm), تُولِيُوم m (tūliyūm)
• Armenian: թուլիում (tʻulium)
• Asturian: tuliu (ast) m
• Basque: tulioa
• Belarusian: ту́лій m (túlij)
• Breton: tuliom (br)
• Bulgarian: ту́лий m (túlij)
• Catalan: tuli (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銩 / 铥 (zh) (diū)

• Cornish: thulyum
• Czech: thulium (cs)
• Danish: thulium (da) n
• Dutch: thulium (nl) n
• Esperanto: tulio (eo)
• Estonian: tuulium (et)
• Faroese: tulium n
• Finnish: tulium (fi)
• French: thulium (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: thulium

• Friulian: tuli
• Galician: tulio (gl) m
• Georgian: თულიუმი (tuliumi)
• German: Thulium (de) n
• Greek: θούλιο (el) n (thoúlio)
• Hebrew: תוליום (he) (túlyum)
• Hindi: व्याहरिला (vyāhrilā)
• Hungarian: túlium (hu)
• Icelandic: túlín (is)
• Indonesian: thulium
• Irish: túiliam
• Italian: tulio (it) m
• Japanese: ツリウム (ja) (tsuriumu)
• Kashubian: tul
• Khmer: ទុយល្យូម (tuylyuum)
• Korean: 툴륨 (ko) (tullyum)
• Latin: thulium (la)
• Latvian: tūlijs
• Lithuanian: tulis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Thulium
• Macedonian: тулиум m (tulium)
• Malay: tulium
• Maltese: tuljum
• Manx: thulium
• Mongolian: тули (tuli)
• Norwegian: thulium
• Polish: tul (pl) m
• Portuguese: túlio (pt) m
• Romanian: tuliu (ro) n
• Russian: ту́лий (ru) m (túlij)
• Scottish Gaelic: tùiliam
• Serbo-Croatian: тулиjум m, тулиj m

  Latin: tulijum m, tulij (sh) m

• Slovak: túlium n
• Slovene: tulij (sl) m
• Spanish: tulio (es) m
• Swedish: tulium (sv) n
• Tajik: тулий (tuliy)
• Tamil: துலியம் (tuliyam)
• Thai: ทูเลียม (tuu-lîiam)
• Turkish: tulyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ту́лій m (túlij)
• Uyghur: تۇلىي (ug) (tuliy)
• Uzbek: tuliy (uz), тулий (tuliy)
• Vietnamese: tuli
• Volapük: tulin (vo)
• Welsh: thwliwm

Danish

Chemical element (edit)
Tm Atomic number 69 thulium
Classification data Period 6 Group 3 Block f-block Class lanthanide
Previous: ← erbium (Er)
Next: ytterbium (Yb) →

Etymology

From Latin Thule +‎ -ium.

Noun

thulium n (indeclinable)

1. thulium
   • 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse, →ISBN, page 149:

     Herefter skæres tantalhylsteret af på en drejebænk, og stangen af thulium er klar til salg.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1931, Fysisk tidsskrift:

     ... næsten alle de sjældneste Grundstoffer — Terbium, Thulium etc.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1973, Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab, Carlsbergfondet (Copenhagen, Denmark)., Oversigt over selskabets virksomhed

     ... til fotoelektronspektret af metallisk thulium, ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “thulium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Chemical element (edit)
Tm Atomic number 69 thulium
Classification data Period 6 Group 3 Block f-block Class lanthanide
Previous: ← erbium (Er)
Next: ytterbium (Yb) →

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

thulium n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. thulium

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.ljɔm/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Noun

thulium m (uncountable)

1. thulium

Further reading

• “thulium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Chemical element (edit)
Tm Atomic number 69 thulium
Classification data Period 6 Group 3 Block f-block Class lanthanide
Previous: ← erbium (Er)
Next: ytterbium (Yb) →

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰuː.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtuː.li.um]

Noun

thūlium n (genitive thūliī); second declension

1. thulium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	thūlium	thūlia
genitive	thūliī	thūliōrum
dative	thūliō	thūliīs
accusative	thūlium	thūlia
ablative	thūliō	thūliīs
vocative	thūlium	thūlia

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈðy˦ʎɔ˧m]

Noun

thulium n

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