Strontia

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pale earth composed of strontium oxide (SrO). uncountable

    "1829, Jacob Green, A Text Book of Chemical Philosophy, R. H. Small, page 247, From the close resemblance between baryta and strontia, these substances were once supposed to be identical."

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strontium oxide

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"1829, Jacob Green, A Text Book of Chemical Philosophy, R. H. Small, page 247, From the close resemblance between baryta and strontia, these substances were once supposed to be identical."

Etymology

From strontium + -a. Ultimately after Strontian, the Scottish village where strontium (and the mineral strontianite) was discovered.

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