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MAGNESIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does magnesia mean?
• MAGNESIA (noun)
The noun MAGNESIA has 1 sense:
1. a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium
Familiarity information: MAGNESIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
magnesia; magnesium oxide; periclase
Hypernyms ("magnesia" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "magnesia"):
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))
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