Molybdenum Mo · 42
solid metal · period 5, group 6 · d-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Molybdenum
History of the character
Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 钼, traditional 鉬.
- 1905 鉬 mù 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese モリブデン Korean 몰리브데넘 Vietnamese molypden
Western name from Greek μόλυβδος (molybdos), “lead-like”. Compare all
Unicode
U+94BC in CJK Unified Ideographs