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Strontium
Strontium – Strontium – Strontium – Estroncio – ストロンチウム – Стронций – 鍶
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Strontium AfrikaansStrontium Danish Strontium German Strontium English Strontium Faroese Strontium Frisian (West) Strontín Icelandic Strontium Luxembourgish Strontium Dutch Strontium Norwegian Strontium Swedish Italic
Estronzio AragoneseStrontsiumu Aromanian Estronciu Asturian Estronci Catalan Estroncio Spanish Strontium French Stronzi Friulian Estroncio Galician Stronzio Italian Strúnzi Lombard Estronci Occitan Estrôncio Portuguese Stronţiu Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Стронций [Stroncij] BulgarianStroncij[um] Bosnian Стронцый [stroncyj] Belarusian Stroncium Czech Stroncij Croatian Starnt Kashubian Стронциум [Stroncium] Macedonian Stront Polish Стронций [Stroncij] Russian Stroncium Slovak Stroncij Slovenian Стронцијум [Stroncijum] Serbian Стронцій [stroncij] Ukrainian Baltic
Stroncis LithuanianStroncijs Latvian Struoncis Samogitian Celtic
Strontiom BretonStrontiwm Welsh Strointiam Gaelic (Irish) Strointiam Gaelic (Scottish) Stroinçhum Gaelic (Manx) Strontyum Cornish Other Indo-European
Στροντιο [strontio] GreekՍտրոնցիում [stronts'ium] Armenian Stroncium, ²Strontiumi Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Stronsiyûm KurdishСтронций [stroncij] Ossetian Стронсий [Stronsi'] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
স্ট্রনসিয়াম [sṭransiẏāma] Bengaliاسترونسیم [astrwnsym] Persian સ્ટ્રૉંટીયમનો [sṭro'ṭīyamano] Gujarati स्ट्रोन्सियम [sṭronsiyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Strontsium EstonianStrontium Finnish Stroncium Hungarian Стронций [Stroncij] Komi Стронций [Stroncij] Mari Стронти [stronti] Moksha Strontsium Võro Altaic
Stronsium AzerbaijaniСтронци [Stronci] Chuvash Стронций [stroncij] Kazakh Стронций [Stroncij] Kyrgyz Стронци [stronci] Mongolian Stronsiyum Turkish سترونتسىي [strontsiy] Uyghur Stronsiy Uzbek Other (Europe)
Estrontzioa Basqueსტორცინიუმი [storc'iniumi] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
سترانشيوم [istiruntiyūm] Arabicסטרונציום [strontsium] Hebrew Stronzju[m] Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Sṳ̂ (鍶) Hakkaストロンチウム [sutoronchiumu] Japanese 스트논듐 or 스트론튬 [seuteurontyum] Korean สทรอนเชียม [sathronchiam] Thai Stronti Vietnamese 鍶 [si1 / si1] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Estronsyo CebuanoStrontium Indonesian Strontium Māori Strontium Malay Other Asiatic
സ്ട്രോണ്ഷിയം [sṭrōṇṣiyam] Malayalamஸ்ட்ரோண்டியம் [sţrōņţiyam] Tamil Africa
Sitotu LingalaStrontiamo Sesotho Stronti Swahili North-America
Estroncio NahuatlSouth-America
Istronsyu QuechuaCreole
Strontimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Stroncio EsperantoNew names
Stronton Atomic ElementsDestroytissueum Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Strontium was first detected in the mineral strontianite (SrCO3, named in 1791), found in the lead mine at Strontian (Srón an t-Sithein), on the shores of Loch Sunart, Argyllshire, Scotland. It appears that it has been known as far back as 1764, but it was not recognized as a distinct mineral until later when the examination of it led to the discovery of the new earth. For the discovery of Strontium several chemists are credited: Cruikshank (1787), Crawford (1790), Hope (1791), Klaproth (1793), Kirwan (1794), and finally Davy (1808). The earliest chemical work on this mineral was by William Cruikshank in 1787, and by the Irish physician Adair Crawford (1748-1795) in 1790. They concluded that it contained a new earth. In September 1793, Martin Heinrich Klaproth published a paper describing a series of parallel experiments made with strontianite and witherite (barium carbonate). In 1794 he prepared Strontium oxide and Strontium hydroxide. On 4 November 1793 Thomas Hope (1766-1844), professor of chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh a paper, summarised in the Society's Transactions in 1794 but not published in full until 1798, in which he reported that he began to work on the mineral from Strontian in 1791 and in a series of experiments he showed that it contained a "hitherto unknown kind of earth". He called the mineral strontianite and the new earth strontia (strontites) after the locality of the mine. On 9 January 1794 the Irish chemist Richard Kirwan (1733-1812) read a paper to the Royal Irish Academy and described a number of careful experiments including the preparation of a number of salts of Strontium and of the oxide and hydroxide. W.P. Doyle, in his biography of Thomas Hope, concluded that "the original discovery of the individual nature of strontianite must be ascribed to Crawford and Cruickshank; while Klaproth, Hope and Kirwan contributed equally and independently to the examination of the properties of strontianite and to the preparation of several compounds of strontium and their differentiation from those of barium." In 1807-08 Sir Humphry Davy, who had previously isolated the elements Sodium, Potassium, Barium, Calcium and Magnesium, managed by similar techniques to isolate the unknown element from strontianite. In his paper read for the Royal Society of London on 30 June 1808, he referred to the new alkaline earth metals in this way (note):
Strontian
Strontian (pronounced /strɒnˈtiən/ (stron-tee-ən)) (Scottish Gaelic: Sròn an t-Sìthein) is the main village in Sunart, an area in western Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, on the A861 road. It lies on the north shore of Loch Sunart, close to the head of the loch. In the hills to the north of Strontian Thomas Charles Hope discovered the mineral strontianite, from which the element strontium was first isolated.
The village name in Gaelic, Sròn an t-Sìthein, translates as the nose [ie. 'point'] of the fairy hill, meaning a knoll or low round hill inhabited by the mythological sìdhe
(note).
Chemistianity 1873
KAYAN
STRONTIUM, from Ore first found at Strontian, Scotland, is a dark yellow colour'd metal; It speedily oxides in Air, or Water. Its Salts tinge candle flame a fine crimson; They act sometimes like Barium compounds. Further reading
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