strontia
Americannoun
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Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
noun
Etymology
Origin of strontia
First recorded in 1795–1805; stronti(an) + -a 4
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The insoluble salts of strontia do not produce a very intense color.
Cyanine appears to behave as an acid, at least it forms with lime, baryta, strontia, oxide of lead, &c., green compounds insoluble in water.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
Lime.—The color of the flame of lime does not greatly differ from that of strontia, with the exception that it is not so decided.
The carbonate of strontia should be moistened with hydrochloric acid instead of water, by which its color similates that of the chloride of strontium when moistened with water.
In the year 1808 he succeeded in decomposing the three earths, lime, baryta and strontia, and in obtaining the metals calcium, barium and strontium, but not in a perfectly pure condition, or in any quantity.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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