Hyphenation of lanthanum

How to hyphenate lanthanum

Because it is a word with a single syllable, lanthanum is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

lanthanum

Syllables Count: 1
Characters Count: 9
Alpha-numeric Characters Count: 9
Hyphens Count: 0

Haphenation done based on the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. The computed hyphenation pattern is: lanthanum

Definitions of lanthanum

lanthanum is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

noun
A chemical element (symbol La) with an atomic number of 57: a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes slowly when exposed to air.
noun
An atom of this element.

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