Strontium is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRONTIUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a metallic element of the calcium group
• the chemical element of atomic number 38, a soft silver-white metal of the alkaline earth series. Its salts are used in fireworks and flares because they give a brilliant red light.
• silvery-white metallic element
• A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3.
• A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.
• a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a soft malleable ductile metallic element of the alkaline-earth group occurring only in combination and used especially in color TV tubes, in crimson fireworks, and in the production of some ferrites — see element table

Words related to STRONTIUM

strontia8 strontic10 strontiums12

Words that contain STRONTIUM

strontiums12 radiostrontium17 radiostrontiums18

How to use STRONTIUM in a sentence

• Beryllium, it will be observed, is very simple, whereas calcium and strontium are complicated.
• There is, thus, nothing new in strontium, but only repetitions of forms already studied.
• The carbonate of strontia should be moistened with hydrochloric acid instead of water, by which its color similates that of the chloride of strontium when moistened with water.
• The chloride of calcium gives a red tinge, but not nearly so decided as the chloride of strontium.
• The deepest red color is produced by the chloride of strontium, particularly at the first moment of applying the heat.
• The substance becomes reduced to sulphide of barium and sulphide of strontium, when it should be dissolved in hydrochloric acid.

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