chrome: [19] Compounds formed from the element chromium are brilliantly coloured green, red, and yellow. Hence, when it was first described by the French chemist Vauquelin in 1797, he named it chrome, after Greek khrōma ‘colour’. This was soon latinized to chromium, and chrome was henceforth used for chromium pigments or chromium plating. The Greek adjective derived from khrōma was khrōmatikós, which as well as referring to colour, denoted the gradations of notes in a musical scale; and it was in this musical sense that it was first borrowed into English in the 17th century.
chrome (n.)
1800, "chromium," from French chrome, the name proposed by Fourcroy and Haüy for a new element, from Greek khroma "color" (see chroma); so called because it makes colorful compounds. The name was given to the metallic element now known as chromium (which had been isolated 1798 by French chemist Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin); it continued in commercial use in English for "chrome steel" (steel with 2 percent or so chrome) after the chemical name was changed internationally. As a short form of chromium plating it dates from 1937. Related: Chromic.
雙語例句
1. The advanced DYNA - CHROME electroplating technology for automotive shock absorber rod was introduced in detail.
詳細介紹了當今世界上最先進的汽車減振器杆硬鉻電鍍技術(DYNA-CHROME).
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2. There is a lot of chrome on cars of that model.
那種牌子的汽車上塗有許多鉻黃.
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3. The United States was vulnerable to shortages of chrome, bauxite, and platinum.
美國的弱點是缺少鉻 、 礬土和鉑.
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4. Now, new models use nice, shiny chrome, hex - head screws.
現在, 新的模型使用漂亮的, 有光澤的鍍鉻六角形鏍絲.
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5. Water faucets shall be chrome - plated type with ball valve.