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Definition of Glucinum

1. n. A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium.

Definition of Glucinum

1. Noun. (obsolete) A rejected name for beryllium. ¹

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Definition of Glucinum

1. a metallic element [n -S] : GLUCINIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Glucinum

1. A rare metallic element, of a silver white colour, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Synonym: beryllium. [Formerly written also glucinium. Origin: Cf. F. Glucinium, glycium, fr. Gr, sweet. Cf. Glycerin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Glucinum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Separation of glucinum from Iron and Manganese. The acid solution is nearly neutralized with ammonia and then poured with constant stirring into an excess ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"glucinum, as obtained by Debray's process, is a white metal, of specific gravity 2-1. It may be forged, and rolled into sheets like gold. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The specific heat of metallic glucinum is about 0.400 at ordinary temperatures but it increases ... Metallic glucinum was first prepared by Wöhler in 1828, ..."

4. Treatise on General and Industrial Inorganic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1912)
"When poured into water it becomes heated and ammonia is evolved. glucinum: Gl, 9.1 This element is also known as Beryllium. ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1864)
"An aluminate of glucinum coloured with peroxide of iron occurs native in the ... Carbonate of glucinum forms double salts with the carbonate of potassium ..."

6. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"On the Atomic Weight of glucinum (Beryllium). ... The constitution of the compounds of glucinum cannot be inferred from any physical or chemical ..."

7. Outlines of Chemistry: A Textbook for College Students by Louis Kahlenberg (1909)
"glucinum, unlike the other members of this group, has a high melting and boiling ... glucinum is a white, malleable metal having a specific gravity 1.8. ..."

8. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in the Practical Study of Chemistry by Silas Hamilton Douglas, Albert Benjamin Prescott (1876)
"Cerium and glucinum are classed with the metals of the earths; Uranium with ... Of the four, glucinum only is dissolved from the hydrate by excess of fixed ..."

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