Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native strontium carbonate; strontianite; hence, also, strontia, and sometimes strontium.
- Pertaining to or containing strontia or strontium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Strontia.
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- adjective mineralogy Describing
minerals containingstrontium
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Examples
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With its cadmium reds, its cobalt sapphires, its strontian yellows (all freshly ground), Italy was a painting, and now he was stepping out of it and into something he knew: downtown, and the showcase precincts of the humble industrial city.
'The Pregnant Widow' 2010
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The taste and science displayed in its execution do credit to the engineer; and the soil in which it is imbedded, being argillaceous, partially encrusted with strontian, reflects equal honour on his geological attainments.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 Various
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The pigment, however, now sold as strontian yellow is usually formed by admixture, and contains no strontia whatever.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Chrome yellows, citron yellow, strontian yellow, and Thwaites 'yellow, also belong to this division.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Then the hopelessness of his position burst upon him like a red strontian fire.
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A durable pigment may be so adulterated as to descend to the second or even the third division, while a semi-stable or fugitive colour may be replaced by a permanent or comparatively permanent substitute, as in the case of strontian yellow and gallstone.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol.
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She never uses high tints and strontian lights to astonish lookers-on.
Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Among them were specimens of copper pyrites in quartz, sulphate of strontian, foliated gypsum, and numerous calcareous petrifactions.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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Mr. Giles Sanford, of Erie, sends me a specimen of gypsum from Sandusky Bay, and a specimen of the strontian-yielding limestone of Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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