bielemental

adj

bielemental

adj

Etymology From bi- (“two”) + elemental.

1

Having two different elements (in various senses).

  • The flux level predicted by these bielemental mixtures cannot be expected to agree with the observed spectra, so that we had to artificially reduce the theoretical EUVE spectrum with respect to the observed one.1995, Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 238:
  • A statistical count of bielemental inorganic crystals by Livingston (1970) including 2488 inorganic crystals yielded 18 which have a linear chain structure.2012, Bernhard Wunderlich, Macromolecular Physics V1, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 147:
1 more example
  • […] this last example – with a single character corresponding to an idea expressed by a polysyllabic (and bi-elemental) Japanese word – shows a more 'ideographic' use of characters in Japanese than is generally the case with modern Chinese.2020, George L. Campbell, Gareth King, Compendium of the World's Languages, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
Related terms
trielemental

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