alkaline earth

1. 1.

   any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)

   Synonymsalkaline-earth metal

   Broadermetallic element

Questions about alkaline earth

What does alkaline earth mean?

alkaline earth means "any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)".

What is another word for alkaline earth?

Close synonyms include alkaline-earth metal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alkaline earth a common word?

alkaline earth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.