Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Falsely or imperfectly metallic: specifically applied to a kind of luster closely resembling that of metals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
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Discovery of new family of pseudo-metallic chemicals
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~ Discovery of new family of pseudo-metallic chemicals -- "A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discovered 50 years ago in such as way as to give the molecule metal-like properties, creating a new, "pseudo" element.
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