strontian

American  

[stron-shee-uhn, -shuhn] / ˈstrɒn ʃi ən, -ʃən /

noun

1. strontianite.

2. strontia.

3. strontium.

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strontian British  

/ ˈstrɒntɪən /

noun

1. another name for strontianite

2. another name for strontium strontium monoxide

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Etymology

Origin of strontian

1780–90; short for Strontian earth mineral first found in Strontian parish, Argyllshire, Scotland

Example Sentences

Chrome yellows, citron yellow, strontian yellow, and Thwaites' yellow, also belong to this division.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

The pigment, however, now sold as strontian yellow is usually formed by admixture, and contains no strontia whatever.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

The same holds with yellows and blues, as orange cadmium is a red yellow, and strontian yellow is a greenish yellow.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

A range of minor peaks ran slanting downwards from the summit of the Aiguille Verte; some of these were covered with snow, and shone as if illuminated with the deep crimson of a strontian flame.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

This strontian was on the south side of Moss Island, in a horizontal vein of three feet in thickness, and from forty to fifty feet in length.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe