astatine

English

Chemical element
At
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄστατος (ástatos, “unstable”) ‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: asʹtətēn, IPA^(key): /ˈastətiːn/
• (US) enPR: ăs'tətēn, IPA^(key): /ˈæstəˌtin/

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Noun

astatine (countable and uncountable, plural astatines)

1. A highly radioactive chemical element (symbol At), one of the halogens, with atomic number 85.

   Synonyms: (proposed name) alabamine, (formerly) anglohelvetium

   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 221:

     Astatine, for instance, is practically unstudied. It has a name and a place on the periodic table (next to Marie Curie's polonium), but almost nothing else.

Hypernyms

• element
  • halogen

Derived terms

• astatane
• astatate
• astatide
• astatinate
• eka-astatine

 

Translations

the chemical element

• Afrikaans: astaat (af)
• Albanian: astat ?
• Arabic: أَسْتَاتِين m (ʔastātīn)
• Armenian: աստատ (astat)
• Asturian: astatu (ast) m
• Basque: astatoa
• Belarusian: аста́т m (astát)
• Bengali: অ্যাস্টাটিন (bn) m (êsṭaṭin)
• Breton: astat ?
• Bulgarian: астати́н m (astatín)
• Catalan: àstat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砹 (zh) (ài)

• Cornish: astatyn ?
• Czech: astat (cs) m
• Danish: astat (da) n
• Dutch: astatium (nl) n, astaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: astato (eo)
• Estonian: astaat (et)
• Faroese: astatan n
• Finnish: astatiini (fi)
• French: astate (fr) m
• Friulian: astat ?
• Galician: ástato (gl) m
• Georgian: ასტატი (asṭaṭi)
• German: Astat (de) n, Astatin n
• Greek: άστατο (el) n (ástato)
• Hebrew: אסטטין (he) m (astatín)
• Hindi: लावणी ? (lāvṇī)
• Hungarian: asztácium (hu)
• Icelandic: astat (is) n
• Indonesian: astatin (id)
• Irish: astaitín m
• Italian: astato (it) m
• Japanese: アスタチン (ja) (asutachin)
• Kashubian: astat ?
• Kazakh: астат (kk) (astat)
• Khmer: អាស្តាត (ʼaahtaat)
• Korean: 아스타틴 (ko) (aseutatin)
• Latin: astatium (la) n
• Latvian: astats m
• Lithuanian: astatinas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Astat ?
• Macedonian: аста́т m (astát)
• Malay: astatin
• Maltese: astat m
• Manx: astaçheen ?
• Mongolian: астат (astat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: astat (no) n

  Nynorsk: astat (nn) n

• Occitan: astat m
• Persian: استاتین (astâtin)
• Polish: astat (pl) m
• Portuguese: astato (pt) m
• Romanian: astatin (ro) n, astatiniu (ro) n
• Russian: аста́т (ru) m (astát), астати́н (ru) m (astatín)
• Scottish Gaelic: astatain f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀ста̄т m

  Roman: àstāt (sh) m

• Slovak: astat m
• Slovene: astat (sl) m
• Spanish: astato (es) m
• Swedish: astat (sv) n
• Tajik: астат (astat)
• Tamil: அஸ்தாதைன் (astātaiṉ)
• Thai: แอสทาทีน (ɛ́ɛs-taa-tiin)
• Turkish: astat (tr), astatin (tr)
• Ukrainian: аста́т m (astát)
• Uzbek: astat, astatin

  Cyrillic: астат (astat)

• Vietnamese: astatin
• Volapük: lastatin
• Welsh: astatin (cy) m
• West Frisian: astaat ?

Anagrams

• Satanite, Tánaiste, in a state, sanitate