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To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.

verse, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.

awn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.

avalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.

Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity. The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. De Quincey.

gned position; special location. Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements. Milton. Hence, specifically:

ances, facts, or the like. Delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers. Acts xii. 4. Ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run. Milton. The triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences. Sir W. Scott.

to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it South.

An intensely radioactive metallic element found (combined) in minute quantities in pitchblende, and various other uranium minerals. Symbol, Ra; atomic weight, 226.4. Radium was discovered by M. and Mme. Curie, of Paris, who in 1902 separated compounds of it by a tedious process from pitchblende. Its compounds color fla…

to move swiftly or with violence. Their bridles they would champ, And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp. Spenser.

A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.

A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.

The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside. Barrow.

ion, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts.

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Shak. Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again. Dryden.…

A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.

eriodic. -- Periodic law (Chem.), the generalization that the properties of the chemical elements are periodic functions of their atomic wieghts. "In other words, if the elements are grouped in the order of their atomic weights, it will be found that nearly the same properties recur periodically throughout the entire…

ole. Black rod. See in the Vocabulary. -- Rods and cones (Anat.), the elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical.