Selenium is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SELENIUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a nonmetallic solid element used in photoelectric cells
• the chemical element of atomic number 34, a grey crystalline non-metal with semiconducting properties.
• nonmetallic element with photoelectric properties
• A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9.
• a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a nonmetallic element

Words related to SELENIUM

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Words that contain SELENIUM

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How to use SELENIUM in a sentence

• The sensitive selenium cell proved unreliable, however, and this means of communication was destined to failure.
• Selenium offers a beautiful example of the combination of simple elements into a most exquisite whole.
• It may be due to the greater pressure to which it is subjected in selenium, or there may be some other reason.
• Such modification of the physical properties of selenium, moreover, occurs without the perceptible development of any mechanical work.
• Under the influence of the luminous rays, the resistance that the selenium offers to the passage of an electric current instantly changes.
• Selenium, the chemical element used in the operation, transmits the sound to the telephone, and your spoken word is reproduced.
• My form of cell is a radical departure from all previous methods of employing selenium, in all of these respects.
• The other surface of the selenium is not so united or combined, but is left in a free state, and a conductor is subsequently applied over it by simple contact or pressure.
• When the bridge is balanced, one-half of the current flows through the cell and acts upon the selenium.
• These changes of resistance are not due to heating of the conductor or the selenium, and the following instance will illustrate this.
• I have one cell in which the selenium has about one-fourth inch square of surface melted on a brass block one inch thick.
• Moreover, even the fusion of the selenium would not produce any such change.
• In conclusion, I would say that the investigation of the physical properties of selenium still offers a rare opportunity for making very important discoveries.
• Selenium gives off the smell of decayed horse-radish.
• SELENIUM is not difficult of fusion, and gives off brown fumes in either the oxidation or reduction flame.
• If there be a mixture of selenium present, then the color of the flame is bluish-green.
• If selenium be present the green color is changed to a deep blue one.
• It is found occasionally in combination with selenium, and there are a traces of it in meteoric iron.
• It occurs still more rarely in the metallic form, or combined with silver, selenium, or chlorine.
• An orange vapor is eliminated if the selenium be present in any quantity, while there is an incrustation around the assay of a grey color, with a metallic lustre.
• Gives off fumes smelling strongly of selenium and coloring the flame blue.
• Selenium is thrown down at first of a fine brownish red, which gradually becomes darker.

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