noun #29,943

Meanings

  1. 1 strontium (chemical element, symbol Sr, atomic number 38)

Examples

Sī shì yī zhǒng yínbái sè de jiǎntǔ jīnshǔ, huàxué xìngzhì huópō.
Strontium is a silvery-white alkaline earth metal with active chemical properties.
Fàngshèxìng sī-90 shì hé fúshè de wūrǎnwù zhī yī.
Radioactive strontium-90 is one of the contaminants from nuclear radiation.

Tips

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has the metal radical (jīn) on the left, showing it is a metallic element — just as most chemical element characters for metals do. The phonetic part (sī) gives the reading.

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