Mesh term Metals, Heavy
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Metals
Description
Metals with high specific gravity, typically larger than 5. They have complex spectra, form colored salts and double salts, have a low electrode potential, are mainly amphoteric, yield weak bases and weak acids, and are oxidizing or reducing agents (From Grant and Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)Browse to child terms:
Actinium
Americium
Antimony
Barium
Berkelium
Bismuth
Cadmium
Californium
Cesium
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
Curium
Einsteinium
Fermium
Francium
Gallium
Germanium
Gold
Hafnium
Indium
Iridium
Iron
Lawrencium
Lead
Manganese
Mendelevium
Mercury
Molybdenum
Neptunium
Nickel
Niobium
Nobelium
Osmium
Palladium
Platinum
Plutonium
Protactinium
Radium
Rhenium
Rhodium
Rubidium
Ruthenium
Silver
Strontium
Tantalum
Technetium
Thallium
Thorium
Tin
Tungsten
Uranium
Vanadium
Zinc
Zirconium
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