Strontium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 401 anagrams from letters in strontium (imnorsttu).
First recorded in 1800-10; stront(ia) + -ium
Shades of more or less depth or intensity are imparted by adding to the tin chloride a little nitrate of strontium or barium.
Calcium colors the flame orange-red, distinguished from strontium, by appearing gray when seen through blue glass.
strontium salts are precipitated by sulphuric acid and alkaline carbonates and sulphate.
strontium obtained from carbonate of strontia by Sir Humphry Davy.
For example, strontium fluoride is used in the red flame-arc whose radiant energy is rich in red and yellow.
A salt of potassium produced under144 the same circumstances a violet, strontium, a crimson colour, &c.
Only a few of the compounds of strontium have any commercial applications.
Mention is here made of the formation of saccharates of barium, strontium, and calcium in low concentrations.
Apparently Bremer in 1898 was the first to introduce fluorides of calcium, barium, and strontium.
The red tint has, no doubt, been produced by strontium also.
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