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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 to

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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 to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3. A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.

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• CALCIUM
  An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca. Note: Calcium is widely
• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• MALLEABLE
  Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. --
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• MALLEABLEIZE
  To make malleable.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• HARDER
  A South African mullet, salted for food.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• OCCURRENT
  1. One who meets; hence, an adversary. Holland. 2. Anything that happens; an occurrence. These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world. Sir T. Browne.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• METALLOPHONE
  An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• METALEPTIC
  Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• NONMETAL
  Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• MONOMETALLIC
  Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• BIMETALLIC
  Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.