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noun a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime
originEtymology tree English Thule Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -umder. English -ium English thulium From Thule (a poetic name for Scandinavia) + -ium.
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