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Like many characters for metallic elements, 铼 (traditional 錸) was coined in modern times for the transition metal rhenium. It follows the standard phono-semantic pattern, combining the metal radical 钅 with the phonetic 来 (lái, 'to come'), whose sound approximates the first syllable of 'rhenium'.
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