Metallic element
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Crossword Answers

3 letters

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

4 letters

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"

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

IRON
A golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head

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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.

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INDIUM
A rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite

CHROME
Another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments

ERBIUM
A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium

NICKEL
A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

COPPER
Any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings

BARIUM
A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

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

OSMIUM
A hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known

SILVER
Silverware eating utensils

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CADMIUM
A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores

GALLIUM
A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores

RHODIUM
A white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum

MERCURY
Temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly"

IRIDIUM
A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium

CALCIUM
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

YTTRIUM
A silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys

NIOBIUM
A soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium

CAESIUM
A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal

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TITANIUM
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

CHROMIUM
A hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing

SCANDIUM
A white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite

TUNGSTEN
A heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite

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YTTERBIUM
A soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime

MANGANESE
A hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals

MAGNESIUM
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)

POTASSIUM
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

STRONTIUM
A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite