Sentence examples for magnesia in a from inspiring English sources

At the end of Book 3 (Laws 702B4-D5), Kleinias reveals that he has a practical use for just the kinds of discussions they've been having: the cities of Crete have decided to found a new city, to be named Magnesia, in a long abandoned part of Crete, and he, along with nine others, is to be responsible for doing so.

One study 18 has compared PEG 3550 with milk of magnesia in a randomised open label parallel group study of 79 children aged 4 16 years that lasted 12 months.

A simple easily controlled technique for adding magnesium ions to desalinated water consists of dissolution of magnesia pellets in a packed bed by feed water slightly acidified with either carbon dioxide or sulfuric acid.

The decisive engagement was fought at the Battle of Magnesia, resulting in a complete Roman victory.

It may be due to the presence of an excess amount of free calcium and magnesia in the mix.

Historically, manganese is named for various black minerals (such as pyrolusite) from the same region of Magnesia in Greece which gave names to similar-sounding magnesium, Mg, and magnetite, an ore of the element iron, Fe.

Magnesium derives its name from magnesite, a magnesium carbonate mineral, and this mineral in turn is said to owe its name to magnesite deposits found in Magnesia, a district in the ancient Greek region of Thessaly.

His military skill contributed substantially to the victory of Roman and Pergamene forces over the Seleucid king Antiochus III in the battle of Magnesia, in Lydia (autumn of 190).

Aeolus, in Greek mythology, mythical king of Magnesia in Thessaly, the son of Hellen (the eponymous ancestor of the true Greeks, or Hellenes) and father of Sisyphus (the "most crafty of men").

The levels of iron, alumina, manganese and magnesia in sample JK26 are similar to those in the non-cobalt coloured Jebel Khalid glasses suggesting that the source of colourant was not cobaltiferous alum.

Themistocles died at Magnesia in 459 BC, at the age of 65, according to Thucydides, from natural causes.