How to Use strontium in a Sentence

strontium

noun

• As the strontium in the bedrock dissolves, plants take it up through their roots.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2018
• The layers at the tip of his tusk had strontium levels that matched the site where he had been unearthed.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• The teal stars are made of a barium nitrate mixture and the red stars are a blend of strontium salts.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
• The strontium ratio in the tooth enamel confirmed that the ancient baboon had not been born in Egypt.
  — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
• By analyzing the strontium, the researchers hope to tell where the people lived.
  — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
• In these clocks, a laser is shined through a cloud of atoms — usually of strontium or ytterbium.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
• And when animals eat grass from around these rocks, the strontium becomes part of their tissues.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
• The strontium levels within the bones matched with western Britain, a region that includes west Wales.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2018
• First, a stream of hot strontium atoms flows into the vacuum chamber.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• Here's rubidium and strontium found in rocks, and their half-life is more than 4 billion years.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile Wooller and his colleagues were looking at the strontium and other isotopes in Kik’s tusk.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• One of the dogs came from Guatemala’s volcanic highlands and the other from the foothills of central Guatemala, according to the strontium isotope data.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2018
• By analyzing the strontium values in 162 of these rodents, the team was able to build up a strontium map of Alaska.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• When animals and humans eat plants, strontium makes its way into their bones and teeth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
• To reach those conclusions, the team studied the isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen and strontium found in the whale bones and teeth.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
• Her trip took her to present-day Germany, Austria or France, based on strontium samples taken from her teeth.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
• The soil and water in a region has a distinctive ratio of strontium isotopes.
  — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
• In the case of the Judeo-Christian Bible, there's nothing about rubidium and strontium, the five layers of the atmosphere, anything like that.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
• The group knew that in strontium ruthenate, electrons travel from atom to atom using one of three distinct channels.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
• For example, the study said that blue fireworks can be made of copper and red fireworks can contain strontium.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 1 July 2020
• The team analyzed strontium isotope ratios in bones of three humans, a horse, a dog and a possible pig buried at Heath Wood.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2023
• The particles were not enriched with calcium and strontium, which would be present if the particles were from Earth.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022
• The elements strontium and lithium will produce red light.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• For instance, barium compounds emit green, red comes from strontium and blues are made with copper.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 30 June 2016
• The researchers then measured the ratios of strontium isotopes along the five-and-a-half-foot-long tusk and compared them to create an itinerary of where the mammoth wandered.
  — Esther Megbel, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
• Strontium has 38 protons, and the diameter of a strontium atom is a few millionths of a millimeter.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2020
• The strontium analysis, published in a 2013 PNAS paper, supports this idea.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
• Her colleagues also analyzed isotopes of strontium and oxygen that the teeth and bones had absorbed.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
• Some of the most accurate clocks, known as optical lattice clocks, measure the movement of electrons around strontium atoms that have been trapped in a network of lasers.
  — Deborah Netburn, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• Human bones absorb the element strontium through water and plant foods.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024