Chemical element

Deprecated. Replaced by https://taxonomy.materialinstruments.com/id/material/metal. The identifier still resolves and is not going anywhere.

A legacy top-level class for materials named directly for an elemental metal or mineral rather than for a compound or alloy.

Where Chemical element sits among every term. Drag to turn; choose a dot to open it.

How it connects

Not linked to any other term yet.

Beside it in Material: Composite, Wood, Denim, Polymer, Coating material, Monomer, Plasticiser, Mineral, Metal and Natural organic.

In other taxonomies

chemical elementWikidata, Q11344theirs is wider
Uniclassno equivalent

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Where it sits

One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term

Chemical element

10 terms, Composite to Natural organic

Record

Deprecated in favour of metal for the elemental metals; the elemental minerals it held go to material.mineral.

Provenance: authoredcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); in-house definition

For machines

Permanent address

/id/material/chemical-element

This termGET /v1/concepts/material/chemical-element
The word, every meaningGET /v1/term/chemical%20element

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Knowledge graph

Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.

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Crosswalks

External mappings and dated negative results for Chemical element
Scheme	Identifier	Their label, or the search	How close
Wikidata	Q11344	chemical element	theirs is wider
Uniclass	no equivalent	searched 21 Oct 2026Chemical element \| chemical element via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/download	none