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
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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atomic number 75 in CommonParlance
- definition a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum
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atomic number 76 in CommonParlance
- definition a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
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atomic number 77 in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium
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atomic number 78 in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits
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atomic number 79 in CommonParlance
- definition a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
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atomic number 8 in CommonParlance
- definition a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
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atomic number 80 in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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atomic number 81 in CommonParlance
- definition a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores
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atomic number 82 in CommonParlance
- definition a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
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atomic number 83 in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
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atomic number 84 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor
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atomic number 85 in CommonParlance
- definition a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
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atomic number 86 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health
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atomic number 87 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium
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atomic number 88 in CommonParlance
- definition an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores
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atomic number 89 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores
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atomic number 9 in CommonParlance
- definition a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite
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atomic number 90 in CommonParlance
- definition a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands
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atomic number 91 in CommonParlance
- definition a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead
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atomic number 92 in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
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atomic number 93 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium
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atomic number 94 in CommonParlance
- definition a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239
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atomic number 95 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms
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atomic number 96 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
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atomic number 97 in CommonParlance
- definition a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium