strontium

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, after the earlier term strontianite, for the name of the Scottish town Strontian.

• enPR: strŏn'tēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɒn.ti.əm/, /ˈstrɒn.ʃi.əm/

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strontium (usually uncountable, plural strontiums)

1. The metallic chemical element (symbol Sr) with an atomic number of 38. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

• celestite

• Strontium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

• trimounts

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strontium (uncountable)

1. strontium

From English Strontian +‎ -ium.

strontium n (singular definite strontiummet, not used in plural form)

1. strontium

• “strontium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English strontium, named after Strontian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔn.(t)si.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: stron‧ti‧um

strontium n (uncountable)

1. strontium (chemical element) [from early 19th c.]

From English strontium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrontium/, [ˈs̠tro̞n̪t̪ium]
• Rhymes: -ontium
• Syllabification^(key): stron‧ti‧um
• Hyphenation^(key): stron‧ti‧um

strontium

1. strontium

• “strontium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /stʁɔ̃.sjɔm/

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strontium m (uncountable)

1. strontium

• “strontium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔn.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪rɔn.t̪͡s̪i.um]

strontium n (genitive strontiī); second declension

1. strontium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• IPA^(key): [ˈstro˦nʃɔ˧m]

strontium n

1. (uncountable) strontium
2. A part of strontium

From English strontium, from Scots Strontian.

• IPA^(key): [strɔntiom], [strɔntiəm], [strɔnʃəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

strontium

1. strontium (chemical element)

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔntsɪɵm/

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strontium n

1. strontium

• strontium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• strontium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• strontium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH