unknown element

collocation in English

meaningsofunknownandelement

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unknown
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈnəʊn/us
/ʌnˈnoʊn/
not known ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofunknownandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This will introduce a virtuallyunknownelementinto legal proceedings.
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Engels further described how this principle was tested by predicting the existence of anunknownelement, temporarily named ' eka-aluminium ', which was later discovered, and named gallium.
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This figure includes anunknownelementfor software since many computers are sold as systems which include supporting software.
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I believe that sailing is an extremely good way of training a man, because he has to deal with anunknownelement.
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Various tests eliminated the possibility of theunknownelementbeing thorium, radium, lead, bismuth, or thallium.
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Eventually he realized that the sample was gold bonded with anunknownelement.
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Generally the term includes theunknownelementof a distinct act of creation.
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The line originated from a hithertounknownelementlater termed helium, after the source of its earliest detection.
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Cronstedt, however, was able to prove that the trouble refiners faced was due to anunknownelementwhich he named nickel.
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Since this line did not correspond to that of any known material, it was proposed that it was due to anunknownelement, provisionally named coronium.
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