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noun • a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors | ||||||||
30% | 8 | Rarest naturally occurring element in the earth's crust | ||||||
noun • a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium | ||||||||
25% | 7 | Group Theory: A term used to describe an element that, when multiplied by a given element, yields the identity element. | ||||||
noun • The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix. • (of a matrix) Transpose conjugate. • (of an operator) Hermitian conjugate. • A functor related to another functor by an adjunction. • A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used. • An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service. • An assistant mayor of a French commune. adjective • Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation). • (of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction. • (of one curve to another curve) Having a relationship of the nature of an adjoint (adjoint curve); sharing multiple points with. | ||||||||
Element Occurring In Sand
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