CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
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Terms in this context
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atomic number 111 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 111
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atomic number 112 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 112
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atomic number 113 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 113
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atomic number 114 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 114
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atomic number 115 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 115
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atomic number 116 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 116
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atomic number 12 in CommonParlance
- definition a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
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atomic number 13 in CommonParlance
- definition a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
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atomic number 14 in CommonParlance
- definition a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
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atomic number 15 in CommonParlance
- definition a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
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atomic number 16 in CommonParlance
- definition an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
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atomic number 17 in CommonParlance
- definition a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
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atomic number 18 in CommonParlance
- definition a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
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atomic number 19 in CommonParlance
- definition a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
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atomic number 2 in CommonParlance
- definition a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)
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atomic number 20 in CommonParlance
- definition a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals
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atomic number 21 in CommonParlance
- definition a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite
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atomic number 22 in CommonParlance
- definition a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
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atomic number 23 in CommonParlance
- definition a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
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atomic number 24 in CommonParlance
- definition a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing
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atomic number 25 in CommonParlance
- definition a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals
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atomic number 26 in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
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atomic number 27 in CommonParlance
- definition a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
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atomic number 28 in CommonParlance
- definition a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
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atomic number 29 in CommonParlance
- definition a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor