Es
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- noun
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Es
- Consider the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Examples
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In the laboratory, researchers synthesized Es for various experimental applications.
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The chemist carefully labeled the container holding Es to ensure safe handling.
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Anduru lived in Dar es Salaam until his death in 1992.
Academic text (2008) -
Most visitors fly from Dar es Salaam into one of the reserve's tented camps.
Academic text (1998) -
Our embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed.
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Recently, excavators uncovered a crucible at Tell es-Safi/Gath, the site of a tenth-century B.C. Philistine city in southern Israel.
Academic text (2011) -
Scientists are studying the properties of Es to understand its potential uses in medicine.
Synonyms
A radioactive chemical element that scientists make by hitting plutonium with neutrons
A radioactive metal called einsteinium with atomic number 99 made by hitting plutonium atoms with neutrons
Surface Forms
Etymology
Es is the chemical symbol made from the first two letters of einsteinium, the element named after the scientist Einstein. It was first found in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion, so Es now stands for that rare, highly radioactive element.