Sentence examples for strontium from inspiring English sources
The word "strontium" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in scientific contexts, particularly in chemistry and materials science, to refer to the chemical element with the symbol Sr. Example: "Strontium is often used in fireworks to produce a bright red color."
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A metallic chemical element (symbol Sr) with an atomic number of 38.
Critics question how much strontium and cesium it will remove, and say tritium can lodge inside marine life, and therefore harm humans.
As a farmer who had moved to the city himself, he spoke the language of the peasants forced from their plots by landslides, the fishermen whose stocks were dead, the weeping, terrified villagers whose livers had been enlarged by strontium in the river water.
This was made by depositing a microscopic layer of strontium titanate on a bed of silicon.
By contrast, Symetrix uses barium strontium titanate, a layered form of perovskite, because of the problems that semiconductor fabs have in processing lead.
This involves an oxide of bismuth, strontium, calcium and copper, known as BSCCO.
Making it was hard, because of the persistent tendency for a layer of oxygen molecules to interpose itself between the strontium titanate and the silicon.
Depending on the location, it is possible for the ratios of strontium-87 to strontium-86 to differ by more than a factor of 5.
This week, an IAEA-led team was fanning out in western Georgia in search of the remaining two of a batch of eight abandoned devices containing strontium-90, another radioactive element, which had been used in generators for communication stations.
Meanwhile, NEC is going it alone with a strontium-bismuth-tantalum oxide design of its own.Without a unified approach, however, gadget designers the world over could be reluctant to embrace the new storage medium.
These are layers composed of strontium-bismuth-tantalum oxide, and strontium-bismuth-niobium oxide.
Strontium-90, like calcium, was concentrated in children's teeth in detectable amounts.In 1958 scientists in St Louis began a campaign to collect baby teeth to study the link between above-ground testing and human exposure.
