alkaline-earth

I have found that this method gives very good results even with quite small amounts of substance (0.1 to 0.5 g), provided a very fast balance is used to avoid the absorption of water by the alkaline-earth salt during the weighings.

Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture 1966

Radium is the higher homologue of barium in the family of alkaline-earth metals; it has been entered in Mendeleev's table in the corresponding column, on the row containing uranium and thorium.

Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture 1966

What properties have the alkaline-earth metals in common with the alkali metals?

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

_ The members of this group are divalent in nearly all their compounds, so that the formulas of their salts resemble those of the alkaline-earth metals.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

~ The alkaline-earth family consists of the very abundant element calcium and the much rarer elements strontium and barium.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

Like the alkaline-earth metals, their carbonates and phosphates are insoluble in water.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

Unlike both the alkali and alkaline-earth metals, their hydroxides are nearly insoluble in water.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

What properties have the metals of the magnesium family in common with the alkali metals; with the alkaline-earth metals?

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

They are called the alkaline-earth metals because their properties are between those of the alkali metals and the earth metals.

An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

Radium is the higher homologue of barium in the family of alkaline-earth metals; it has been entered in Mendeleev's table in the corresponding column, on the row containing uranium and thorium.

Radium And The New Concepts In Chemistry: Nobel Lecture 1911