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• magnesia
  magnesia

  noun

  a white, tasteless substance, magnesium oxide, MgO, used in medicine as an antacid and laxative.
• Magnesia
  Magnesia

  noun

  ancient name of Manisa.

magnesia

¹ American  

[mag-nee-zhuh, -shuh] / mægˈni ʒə, -ʃə /

noun

1. a white, tasteless substance, magnesium oxide, MgO, used in medicine as an antacid and laxative.

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Magnesia ² American  

[mag-nee-shee-uh, -zhee-uh] / mægˈni ʃi ə, -ʒi ə /

noun

1. ancient name of Manisa.

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magnesia British  

/ mæɡˈniːʃə /

noun

1. another name for magnesium oxide

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magnesia Scientific  

/ măg-nē′zhə /

1. A white powder with a very high melting point. It is used to make heat-resistant materials, electrical insulators, cements, fertilizer, and plastics. It is also used in medicine as an antacid and laxative. Chemical formula: MgO.

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Other Word Forms

• magnesian
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of magnesia

1350–1400; Middle English: philosophers' stone < Medieval Latin magnēsia < Greek ( hē ) Magnēsía ( líthos ) (the stone) of Magnesia; sense development obscure

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After I read your article about using milk of magnesia topically as a deodorant, I tried it.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

However, my daughter-in-law who is an RN says that milk of magnesia is very hard on the kidneys.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

She and some of her classmates started bringing along basic first-aid supplies, like bandages, gauze, and mixtures of milk of magnesia and water to counteract tear gas.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2020

Left were two dozen water bottles, some snacks and one bottle of milk of magnesia.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2020

The purgante was her own concoction, a mixture of cod-liver oil and mugwort, milk of magnesia, and green papaya juice, sweetened to disguise the fishy, bitter, chalky taste.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

The shock wave was felt some distance up the coast of the Magnesia region in the city of Volos.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023

The body of a 45-year-old shepherd was found in a rural area in the area of Magnesia on Wednesday, the fire brigade said.

From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023

In 190 BCE, Roman armies smashed the forces of Antiochus III at the Battle of Magnesia in western Asia Minor.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

My grandmother nearly poisoned herself when she mistakenly drank cleaning fluid, thinking it was Milk of Magnesia; both were milky fluids in blue bottles, and she could not read English.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2013

Magnesia, moist bread and India Rubber, are all of them good to clean light kid gloves, if rubbed on thoroughly.

From The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

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