strontia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

strontia

Etymology

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

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