dvi-

combining form

: standing or assumed to stand in the second place beyond (a specified element) in the same family of the periodic table

—in names of chemical elements especially when not yet discovered

dvi-manganese (now called rhenium)

compare eka-

Word History

Etymology

Sanskrit dvi- two

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