Five elements
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Five elements may refer to:
In philosophy:
In science:
In philosophy:
- Five elements (Japanese philosophy)Five elements (Japanese philosophy)One may encounter two kinds of five elements philosophy in Japan. One is called, in Japanese, gogyō , having its backgrounds in the Chinese five elements, and the other is called godai . Godai is usually regarded as a Buddhism term in Japan, with certain influences from Hinduism. The following...
- MahabhutaMahabhutaMahābhūta is Sanskrit and Pāli for "great element." In Buddhism, the "four great elements" are earth, water, fire and air...
- Pancha Tattva (Vaishnavism)
- Five elements (Chinese philosophy)
In science:
- BoronBoronBoron is the chemical element with atomic number 5 and the chemical symbol B. Boron is a metalloid. Because boron is not produced by stellar nucleosynthesis, it is a low-abundance element in both the solar system and the Earth's crust. However, boron is concentrated on Earth by the...
, element 5 - Group 5 elementGroup 5 elementA Group 5 element is a chemical element in the fifth group in the periodic table. In the modern IUPAC nomenclature, Group 5 of the periodic table contains vanadium , niobium , tantalum and dubnium . This group lies in the d-block of the periodic table...
- Period 5 elementPeriod 5 elementA period 5 element is one of the chemical elements in the fifth row of the periodic table of the elements. The periodic table is laid out in rows to illustrate recurring trends in the chemical behaviour of the elements as their atomic number increases: a new row is begun when chemical behaviour...
See also
- Classical elements
- Fifth Element (disambiguation)
- Four elements (disambiguation)