Periodic Table · element
Strontium
Sr · Z 38
- atomic number
- 38
- atomic mass
- 87.62
- notation
- Sr
- group
- 2: Beryllium
- period
- 5
- state0c
- Solid
- state20c
- Solid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 2.64
- melting pt
- 777
- boiling pt
- 1382
- discovered
- 1787
- abundance
- 370
- bio class
- Ultratrace
- bio role
- Follows calcium into bone and shell, and acantharean radiolarians build their whole skeleton from celestine, strontium sulfate.
- ore grade
- 280000
- ore minerals
- celestine
- mined as
- Primary
extraction
Celestine is hand-sorted or floated and converted to strontium carbonate; a small industry, mostly for pyrotechnics and magnets since television tubes disappeared.
categories
#Alkaline Earth Metal#Metal
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