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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of labroid fishes, commonly known as doncellas. They abound in kelp in the tropical seas of America.
- noun A combining form of
iridium , used in compound words, signifying the presence of iridium as a constituent: as, iridio-platinum, the alloy of 90 per cent. platinum with 10 per cent. iridium adopted as the material for the international standard meter and kilogram. Iridio- or irido- is used more specifically in the names of compounds in which iridium is present with apparently triad valence, as iniridio- chlorid of potassium, same as potassium chloriridite (K3IrCl6).
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In the base of the tube — which was filled with explosive — was a thin iridio-platinum wire, and when the Director Layer pressed the trigger an electric current would flow across and fuse it, firing the explosive which would in turn explode the cordite charge.
Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956
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Electricity flowed across the iridio-platinum bridges — far more than their resistance of 0.9 ohm could take — and fused them.
Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956
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Espaillat Nanita reveló que según estudios e investigaciones geológicas realizadas en suelo haitiano, indican que dicha nación comparte con la República Dominicana el yacimiento de oro, sin explotar, más grande del mundo, así como un mineral poco conocido y escaso que es vital para la construcción de naves espaciales y otros aparatos de uso extraterrestre, el iridio.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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