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rubidium

/roo-bid-ee-uhm/US // ruˈbɪd i əm //UK // (ruːˈbɪdɪəm) //

铷,镭射,铷元素,铷原子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : a silver-white, metallic, active element resembling potassium, used in photoelectric cells and radio vacuum tubes. Symbol: Rb; atomic weight: 85.47; atomic number: 37; specific gravity: 1.53 at 20°C.

Examples

  • They then prepared rubidium atoms with spins aligned in a particular direction, and sent the atoms drifting toward the barrier.

  • In the Cold Atom Lab, rubidium atoms reached tenths of billionths of kelvins.

  • He picked up a shard of rubidium that served as a paper weight and toyed with it.

  • In rubidium the lines Rb and Rb in the blue, and Rb in the red are almost equally specific.

  • The separation of lithium, cæsium, and rubidium is seldom called for, owing to their rarity.

  • Cæsium and rubidium are separated from potassium by fractional precipitation with platinum chloride.

  • Rubidium occurs widely diffused in nature, but in very small quantities.