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Meaning of celtium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

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The name originally proposed for element 72, now called hafnium; the discoverer, Georges Urbain, conjectured it to be a rare earth element, and proposed the symbol Ct; but subsequent work showed it to be a transition element, and hafnium was given the symbol Hf.

historical, uncountable

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Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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