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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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Other readers have been enthusiastic about leaving milk of magnesia on their face overnight.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Q: I’ve tried applying milk of magnesia to my underarms for the last two weeks.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

She distributed goggles, masks, first-aid supplies and milk of magnesia, which is diluted with water to ease the sting of tear gas.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2020

But then some people we’d never met saw us and said, we have some milk of magnesia.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

You can get absolutely anything you need in the stores: Breck Special Formulated Shampoo, Phillips’ milk of magnesia, Campbell’s tomato soup, honestly you name it!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023

Since Wednesday, officials have ordered the evacuation of several communities in the hard-hit area of Magnesia, a coastal area north of Athens.

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

I like Milk of Magnesia and home remedies that really work.

From Time ● Oct. 24, 2017

The analysis of these waters is very incomplete, besides containing a little carbonic acid gas, they hold in solution the carbonates of Iron, Lime, Magnesia, etc.

From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by J. H. Holdsworth

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