Element
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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AT
A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium

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TIN
Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

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ZINC
A bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

LEAD
A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey; "the children were playing with lead soldiers"

IRON
A golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head

UNIT
An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

NEON
A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts

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METAL
Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

ARGON
A colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere

RADON
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

BORON
A trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder

TRACE
A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

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FACTOR
Resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"

SODIUM
A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)

IODINE
A tincture consisting of a solution of iodine in ethyl alcohol; applied topically to wounds as an antiseptic

NICKEL
A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

MILIEU
The environmental condition

COBALT
A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition

CARBON
A copy made with carbon paper

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HABITAT
The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

URANIUM
A heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons

SILICON
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

RHENIUM
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

ARSENIC
A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar

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COMPONENT
An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"

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INGREDIENT
A component of a mixture or compound

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CONSTITUENT
An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"

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CHEMICALELEMENT
Any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter