glucinum

Also glu·cin·i·um

[gloo-sahy-nuhm]

noun

Chemistry.

1. (formerly) beryllium. Gl

glucinum

/ ɡluːˈsaɪnəm, ɡluːˈsɪnɪəm /

noun

1. a former name for beryllium

Other Word Forms

• glucinic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of glucinum¹

1805–15; < New Latin < Greek glyk ( ýs ) sweet (from the taste of some of the salts) + -in- -in ² + Latin -um noun suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of glucinum¹

C19: New Latin glucina beryllium oxide, from Greek glukus sweet + _-in ; alluding to the sweet taste of some of the salts

Example Sentences

Glucinum, glōō-sī′num, n. a white metal prepared from beryl—its oxide, Glucī′na, white, tasteless, insoluble in water.—adj.

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It is a silicate of aluminium and the rare element glucinum or beryllium, which was detected in it by Vauquelin after it had been discovered by the same chemist in the beryl.

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This is composed of glucina, which is glucinum oxide, or beryllia, BeO, of which there is 19.8 per cent., and alumina, or aluminium oxide, Al2O3, of which there is 80.2 per cent.

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All the rare metals afford coloured compounds: tantalum, niobium, pelopium, vanadium, tellurium, titanium, yttrium, lanthanum, didymium, glucinum, cerium, thorinum, zirconium, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium, indium, thallium, &c.; and it is just possible that some of these may one day scrape acquaintance with the palette.

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Ayrault immediately advertised for bids for the construction of a glucinum cylinder twenty-five feet in diameter, fifteen feet high at the sides, with a domed roof, bringing up the total height to twenty-one feet, and with a small gutter about it to catch the rain on Jupiter or any other planet they might visit.

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