Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
strontia : so named by Dr. Hope, who first obtained this earth from strontianite, or native carbonate of strontium.
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Examples
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All the earths are more or less endowed with alkaline properties; but there are four, barytes, magnesia, lime, and strontites, which are called _alkaline earths_, because they possess those qualities in so great a degree, as to entitle them, in most respects, to the rank of alkalies.
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One of the remarkable characteristic properties of strontites is, that its salts, when dissolved in spirit of wine, tinge the flame of a deep red, or blood colour.
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You might, indeed, almost confine that number to four; for barytes, strontites, and the others of late discovery, act but so small a part in this great theatre, that they cannot be reckoned as essential to the general formation of the globe.
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H Hare, Robert Junr. his account of the fusion of strontites and volatilisa - tion of platinum, and also of a new arrangement of his apparatus,
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(barytes and strontites) with the alkalies; but as lime and magnesia have almost an equal title to that rank, I think it better not to separate them, and therefore have adopted the common method of classing them with the earths, and of distinguishing them by the name of
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