Crossword-Solution: MAGNESIA 8 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Magnesia n. A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium
oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by
burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in
medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

We have 19 clues for the answer “MAGNESIA”

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Antacid substance 1 answer
Substance used as an antacid and laxative 1 answer
white tasteless substance used as an antacid and a laxative 1 answer
magnesium oxide 1 answer
Oxide used as an antacid 1 answer
Milk of ___ (medicine cabinet item) 1 answer
Milk of ___ (antacid) 1 answer
Milk of __ 1 answer
Laxative powder 1 answer
Kind of milk (with "of") 1 answer
Antacid ingredient 1 answer
Drug store item. 2 answers
HORNBLENDE, constituent of 3 answers
JADE, constituent of 4 answers
CHLORITE, constituent of 4 answers
CEMENT mixing material 9 answers
ANTACID TARGET 10 answers
Antacid choice 11 answers
ANTACID 20 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with MAGNESIA (5)

Nitric Acid—Exists in combination with the bases, potash, soda, lime, magnesia, in both the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, and is never found insoluble.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
She had no powder, but found in her grandfather's room a lump of magnesia, that he was in the habit of taking for heart-burn, and passed it over and over her brown face and hands.
The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1996
Their expensive journey from Nice to Magnesia, afforded a decent and ample pretence: the leading prelates were tempted by the liberality of his nocturnal visits; and the incorruptible patriarch was flattered by the homage of his new colleague, who led his mule by the bridle into the town, and removed to a respectful distance the importunity of the crowd.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
Chloride tungsten or titanium passed through hot tube, depositing a film of metal on the carbon; or filaments of zirconia oxide, or alumina or magnesia, thoria or other infusible oxides mixed or separate, and obtained by moistening and squirting through a die, are thus coated with above metals and used for incandescent lamps.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
The name Electricity is derived from ELEKTRON, the Greek for amber, and Magnetism from Magnes, the name of the shepherd, or, more likely, from the city of Magnesia, in Lydia, where the stone occurred.
Heroes of the Telegraph J. Munro 1997
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1968–2016).