strontianite

IPA: strˈɑntiˈɛnaɪt

(mineralogy) A grey or yellowish mineral, SrCO₃, strontium carbonate, that is an ore of strontium.

Examples of "strontianite" in Sentences

It occurs in nature as the mineral strontianite.
This new mineral, strontianite, is now known to be composed of strontium carbonate, SrCO3.
By Dr. Scheibler's important discovery, a new era has begun in the matter of strontianite.
~ Strontium occurs sparingly in nature, usually as strontianite (SrCO_ {3}) and as celestite (SrSO_ {4}).
Strontium is recovered from two strontium minerals, strontianite (strontium carbonate) and celestite (strontium sulfate).
Write equations to represent the reactions involved in the preparation of strontium hydroxide and strontium nitrate from strontianite.
Strontia, the oxide of strontium (SrO), occurs in nature as sulphate, in the mineral celestine (SrSO_ {4}), and as carbonate in strontianite
Other catalytic agents have been recommended from time to time, including strontianite, lead oxide, caustic baryta, aluminium hydrate, but none of these is of any practical importance.
It may be pixxiuced in large quantities by igniting strontianite intensely with charcoal powder, or by heating to white - ness the salt formed from this fossile, by the action of nitric acid.
Hitherto native strontianite, that is, the 90 to 95 per cent. pure carbonate of strontium (not the celestine which frequently is mistaken by the term strontianite), has not been worked systematically in mines, but what used to be brought to the market was an inferior stone collected in various parts of Germany, chiefly in Westphalia, where it is found on the surface of the fields.