magnesium

Definition

  • noun: a silver-white metallic element that produces a very bright white light when it burns
  • noun: a silver-white malleable ductile light metallic element that occurs abundantly in nature and is used in metallurgical and chemical processes, in photography, signaling, and pyrotechnics because of the intense white light it produces on burning, and in construction especially in the form of light alloys

Movie quotes

  • (..) attempting to combine some kind of sorcery and scientific formula. More importantly... What he was trying to dispose of. Potassium and magnesium. sulfuric acid. Why the iron went out of the ink as long as it's not to burnt Peculiar. Hydrated rhododendron. (..)
    2009 Sherlock Holmes