Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The name given to a supposed new chemical element of the same family with barium, strontium, and calcium, occurring as sulphate in the mineral masrite from Egypt. There has been no confirmation of its existence. The place to which the approximate atomic weight reported would assign it in the periodic classification of the elements seems to belong to the more recently discovered radium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry, obsolete A rejected name for indium.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word masrium.

Examples

    Sorry, no example sentences found.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.