magnesium

Questions about magnesium

What does magnesium mean?

magnesium means "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)".

How many syllables are in magnesium?

magnesium has 4 syllables: mag-ne-si-um. The stress falls on "ne". In IPA it is /mæɡˈniziəm/.

What is another word for magnesium?

Close synonyms include Mg, atomic number 12. 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 magnesium a common word?

magnesium is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for magnesium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.