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Magnesium

noun

A light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine). Synonyms: atomic number 12, Mg.

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"Magnesium" Quotes from Famous Books

... neighboring streets, but as no detachment of hostile troops appeared, the Americans concluded that they had been fired by a patrol which was coming from the electric-works to see what the noise at the station was about. Several rockets with their blinding magnesium light appeared in the dark sky and illumined the roofs of the houses. Was it ...

— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... sat reading from a roll of manuscript; but the cells were absolutely empty. I suggested taking flashlight photographs and fingerprint impressions of the doors and walls. But nobody had any magnesium, and the policemen said the doors might have been scrubbed in any case, so what was the use. And the priest with the lantern sneered, and the others laughed with him, so that King and I were made to ...

— Caves of Terror • Talbot Mundy

... ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

Words linked to "Magnesium" : magnesite, spinel, magnesia, metal, olivine, carnallite, magnesium hydroxide, atomic number 12, dolomite, magnesium nitride, bitter spar, periclase, metallic element