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English noun: magnesium

1. magnesium (substance) 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)


Synonymsatomic number 12, Mg


Broader (hypernym)metal, metallic element


Substance meronymbitter spar, carnallite, dolomite, magnesia, magnesite, magnesium oxide, olivine, periclase, spinel









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