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magnesia

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mag·ne·sia  (mg-nzh, -sh)
n.
Magnesium oxide.
[Middle English, mineral ingredient of the philosophers' stone, from Medieval Latin magnsia, from Greek, a kind of ore, from Magnsi, Magnesia, an ancient city of Asia Minor.]
mag·nesian adj.
magnesia
Noun
a white tasteless substance used as an antacid and laxative; magnesium oxide [Greek Magnēsia of Magnēs, ancient mineral-rich region]
magnesia  (mg-nzh)
A white powder with a very high melting point. It is used to make heat-resistant materials, electrical insulators, cements, fertilizer, and plastics. It is also used in medicine as an antacid and laxative. Chemical formula: MgO.
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Noun1.magnesia - a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium
magnesium oxide, periclase
atomic number 12, magnesium, Mg - a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
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of chloride of sodium; then, in a smaller quantity, chlorides of magnesium and of potassium, bromide of magnesium, sulphate of magnesia, sulphate and carbonate of lime.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
To this day pills are made behind its tall prcscription desk--pills rolled out on its own pill-tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill-boxes.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
(from the Argo) to look for water and was left behind in Magnesia near the place called Aphetae because of his desertion there.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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