Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. The monoxid of strontium,
SrO, an alkaline earth which when pure is an infusible grayish-
white powder having an acrid burning taste. It is soluble in
water with evolution of heat, slaking into a hydrate, Sr(OH)2,
which is quite soluble and deposits from its solution crystals
of the hydrate containing eight molecules of water of
crystallization. The hydrate has a strong alkaline reaction, and
is more caustic than lime, but less so than the alkalis.
Strontia does not occur native, but is prepared by igniting the
carbonate, the mineral strontianite. GNU Webster's 1913 - n.
(Chem.) An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance,
and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the
metal strontium. “Weigh five ounces of dry nitrate of strontia,
one ounce and a half of finely-powdered sulphur, five drams of
chlorate of potash, and four drams of sulphuret of antimony.”
“It states that if 10 per cent. of burnt magnesia, or even
baryta, or strontia, is mixed (cold