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Mrs. Eagle's 8th Grade Class "If you want your Fireworks to reach new heights, Use Strontium, It ignites!"
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Strontianite is a mineral discovered by a Scottish man named Adair Crawford in 1790. It was named after a city in Scotland called Strontianite. It wasn't until 1808 when a new mineral was discovered called Strontium by a man named Sir Humphrey Davy in London. This element, strontium, was actually discovered by accident. |
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There are many uses of strontium that nobody would think of. Strontium is used in the fire that is in flares; the kind of flares police men use to tell people to watch out. It is also used for fireworks. Some types of strontium are used to make the glass on a color television tube. It is sometimes used in optical materials such as glasses or telescopes. If a doctor puts a little bit of strontium in a person's body, it is taken up by the bone tissue. Then the doctor uses radiation detectors to locate the radioactive strontium to assess the patents abnormalities. |
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Strontium can be used to make fireworks. It can be a very dangerous element. One should not handle the element unless you are a professionally qualified chemist. It is a product of nuclear fallout and presents a major health problem to anybody who doesn't know how to handle it correctly. |
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Properties and Compounds of Strontium: Strontium is a soft, shiny metal. It is also one of the most active elements on the periodic table. When strontium is ground up very finely, it burns in mid air. This element, when burned, gives off a red color. This is why this element is good to use when one is making fireworks or flares. Strontium looks and feels like powdered lime. This element also has a high refractive index. The mineral itself is very rare in comparison to the element calcium. This is why it costs between six to eight dollars a pound. If enough strontium gets into a person's bone marrow, it can destroy the marrow, and even cause cancer. |
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•Exploring Chemical Elements and their Compounds. •Cambridge Dictionaries Online •Web Elements Periodic Table •http://animatedgif.net/ |
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Alkaline metal: A substance which has the opposite effect or chemical behavior to an acid. Refractive index: The degree to which light bends. Bone marrow: The tissue in the bone. Radiation: heat, light, or elementary particles the most simple parts of matter produced by an object. Reference: Dictionary.com |
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