Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gray to yellowish-green ore of strontium, SrCO3.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native strontium carbonate, a mineral that occurs massive, fibrous, stellated, and rarely in orthorhombic crystals resembling those of aragonite in form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
grey oryellowish mineral ,Sr C O 3, strontium carbonate, that is anore ofstrontium
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mineral consisting of strontium carbonate
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hitherto native strontianite, that is, the 90 to 95 per cent. pure carbonate of strontium (not the celestine which frequently is mistaken by the term strontianite), has not been worked systematically in mines, but what used to be brought to the market was an inferior stone collected in various parts of Germany, chiefly in Westphalia, where it is found on the surface of the fields.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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This new mineral, strontianite, is now known to be composed of strontium carbonate, SrCO3.
Strontium 2008
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Strontium is recovered from two strontium minerals, strontianite (strontium carbonate) and celestite (strontium sulfate).
Strontium 2008
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By Dr. Scheibler's important discovery, a new era has begun in the matter of strontianite.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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Other catalytic agents have been recommended from time to time, including strontianite, lead oxide, caustic baryta, aluminium hydrate, but none of these is of any practical importance.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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~ Strontium occurs sparingly in nature, usually as strontianite (SrCO_ {3}) and as celestite (SrSO_ {4}).
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Write equations to represent the reactions involved in the preparation of strontium hydroxide and strontium nitrate from strontianite.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Strontia, the oxide of strontium (SrO), occurs in nature as sulphate, in the mineral celestine (SrSO_ {4}), and as carbonate in strontianite
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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It may be pixxiuced in large quantities by igniting strontianite intensely with charcoal powder, or by heating to white - ness the salt formed from this fossile, by the action of nitric acid.
Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1 Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy 1812
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