alkaline-earth metal

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

   Broadermetallic element

Questions about alkaline-earth metal

What does alkaline-earth metal mean?

alkaline-earth metal 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 metal?

Close synonyms include alkaline earth. 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 metal a common word?

alkaline-earth metal 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.