Crossword-Solution: MAGNESIUM
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| Magnesium | n. | A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “MAGNESIUM”
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| mg | 1 answer |
| in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame | 1 answer |
| fireworks metal | 1 answer |
| a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element | 1 answer |
| Light-weight alloy metal. | 1 answer |
| Element found in flashbulbs | 1 answer |
| ENZYMES, trace element found in | 1 answer |
| Atomic number 12 | 1 answer |
| Y alloy, constituent of | 3 answers |
| JADE, constituent of | 4 answers |
| MINERAL requirement of the body | 7 answers |
| silvery-white metallic element | 8 answers |
| silver-white metallic element | 10 answers |
| MOULDING material | 10 answers |
| A GREY TETRAVALENT METALLIC ELEMENT THAT RESEMBLES ZIRCONIUM CHEMICALLY AND IS FOUND IN ZIRCONIUM MINERALS | 11 answers |
| A CRYSTALLINE METALLIC ELEMENT NOT FOUND IN NATURE | 11 answers |
| BLOOD plasma constituent | 13 answers |
| PLASMA, constituent of | 13 answers |
| MINERAL of the body | 17 answers |
| BODY mineral | 18 answers |
| metallic chemical element | 20 answers |
| metallic element | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MAGNESIUM (5)
The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
Hans Bethe, one of the contributing scientists, wrote "it looked like a giant magnesium flare which kept on for what seemed a whole minute but was actually one or two seconds.
Suddenly--the time is approximately 8:14--the whole valley is filled by a garish light which resembles the magnesium light used in photography, and I am conscious of a wave of heat.
His method was to employ two small silk parachutes, which, if required, might carry burning magnesium wires, and which were to be attached to each other by a length of silk thread.
You shan't be able to say that you could not see what you were doing." As he spoke, he was lighting another piece of the magnesium ribbon, which made a blinding glare in which everything was plainly discernible, down to the smallest detail.
Quotes with MAGNESIUM (3)
Suddenly I began to wonder how to please so many people. do I take the magnesium citrate? What about the coffee enema? Do I do both? Do I do the abdominal message or the colonic? Do I tell the doctors about each other? East meets West in Gilda's body: Western medicine down my throat, Eastern medicine up my butt.
A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things:-45 litres of water-Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen-Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches-Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap-Enough iron to make a two inch nail-Enough carbon for 9,000 pencil points-A spoonful of magnesium I weigh more than 70 kilograms. And I remember a TV series called Cosmos. Carl Sagan would walk around on a set that was meant to look like space, speaking in large numbers. On…
You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn’t it be simpler just to rough in a slab of chemicals, a green acre of goo? You are a man, a retired railroad worker who makes replicas as a hobby. You decide to make a replica of one tree, the longleaf pine your great-grandfather planted- just a replica- it doesn’t have to work. How are you going to do it? How long do you think you might live, how good is your glue?…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2012).