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镏 (traditional 鎦) combines the metal radical 钅 (from 金) on the left with 留 ('to stay' or 'to remain') on the right, which supplies the pronunciation. The character has two distinct technical meanings: as a verb, it refers to plating a thin layer of gold onto another metal, and in modern chemistry it denotes the element lutetium. Both usages are confined to industrial and scientific settings, with no role in everyday language.
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