strontian

How to use strontian in a sentence

• Then the hopelessness of his position burst upon him like a red strontian fire.

  McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 | Various

• It was enveloped by the limestone which abounds in cavities filled with crystals of strontian and dog-tooth spar.

  Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• She never uses high tints and strontian lights to astonish lookers-on.

  Over the Teacups | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

• Shellac may be melted with nitrate of strontian, in the same way.

  The Pyrotechnist's Treasury | Thomas Kentish

• I suppose you have not heard of the discovery of the native sulphate of strontian in England.

  The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2) | John Ayrton Paris