magnesium hydroxide

1. 1.

   a white crystalline powder used chiefly in medicines

   Broaderhydroxide

Questions about magnesium hydroxide

What does magnesium hydroxide mean?

magnesium hydroxide means "a white crystalline powder used chiefly in medicines".

Is magnesium hydroxide a common word?

magnesium hydroxide 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.