Illustration: At a Japanese school science bench, a teacher holds a clean copper strip beside a transparent teaching model packed with identical atom units. Every unit has the same internal nucleus pattern, making the repeated single type easy to notice.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

元げん素そ

genso

chemical element

Example sentences

元素げんそ記号きごうＨは水素すいそをあらわす。
The chemical symbol H indicates hydrogen.
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鉄てつや酸素さんそは元素げんそである。
Iron and oxygen are elements.
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彼かれらはそれが新あたらしい元素げんそに違ちがいないと信しんじました。
They believed that it must be a new element.
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Kanji in 元素

元beginning; former timeOnゲン・ガンKunもと
素elementary; principleOnソ・スKunもと

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