chemical element

English

Noun

chemical element (plural chemical elements)

1. (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.

   Synonym: element

2. (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.

   Synonyms: elementary substance, element

Translations

any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction

• Acehnese: drah kimia
• Arabic: عُنْصُر كِيمِيَائِيّ m (ʕunṣur kīmiyāʔiyy)
• Asturian: elementu químicu m
• Catalan: element químic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化學元素／化学元素 (zh) (huàxué yuánsù)

• Czech: chemický prvek (cs) m
• Danish: grundstof (da) n
• Dutch: chemisch element (nl) n, scheikundig element n
• Esperanto: kemia elemento (eo)
• Finnish: alkuaine (fi)
• French: élément chimique (fr) m
• Galician: elemento químico (gl) m
• Georgian: ქიმიური ელემენტი (kimiuri elemenṭi)
• German: chemisches Element (de) n
• Greek: χημικό στοιχείο (el) n (chimikó stoicheío)
• Greenlandic: pinngoqqaat
• Haitian Creole: eleman chimik
• Hindi: रासायनिक तत्व m (rāsāyanik tatva)
• Hungarian: kémiai elem (hu)
• Italian: elemento chimico (it) m
• Japanese: 化学元素 (ja) (かがくげんそ, kagaku genso)
• Korean: 화학 원소(化學元素) (hwahak wonso)
• Latvian: ķīmiskais elements m
• Malay: unsur kimia (ms)
• Mongolian: химийн элемент (mn) (ximiin element)
• Navajo: áʼádaatʼéhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grunnstoff (no) n

  Nynorsk: grunnstoff n

• Persian: عنصر شیمیایی (onsor-e šimiyâyi), آخشیج کیمیایی (âxšij-e kimiyâyi)
• Polish: pierwiastek chemiczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: elemento químico (pt) m
• Romanian: element chimic n
• Russian: хими́ческий элеме́нт (ru) m (ximíčeskij elemént)
• Serbo-Croatian: kemijski element m
• Slovak: chemický prvok m
• Spanish: elemento químico (es) m
• Swahili: elementi ya kikemia
• Swedish: grundämne (sv) n
• Tagalog: kapnaying mulangkap
• Turkish: kimyasal element (tr)
• Ukrainian: хімі́чний елеме́нт (uk) m (ximíčnyj elemént)
• Vietnamese: nguyên tố hoá học (元素化學)
• Volapük: lömin (vo)

References

• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2014). "chemical element". Compendium of Chemical Terminology Internet edition.