Word Meanings - STRONTIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3.

• Strontianite
  Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Symbology
  The art of expressing by symbols.
• Combinate
  United; joined; betrothed.
• SYMBOLICSYMBOLICAL
  Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge. -- Sym*bol"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sym*bol"ic*al*ness, n. The
• Elementation
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• Isolated
  of Isolate
• Metaldehyde
  A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
• Metallizing
  of Metallize
• Metalmen
  of Metalman
• Colorado group
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Combination
  The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
• SYMBOLISTICSYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• Elementoid
  Resembling an element.
• Isolating
  of Isolate
• Metalepses
  of Metalepsis
• Metallize
  To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.
• Metalman
  A worker in metals.

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