Chem. [f. STRONTIAN: see -IA.] One of the alkaline earths, the monoxide of strontium. Also attrib. in strontia waler, the aqueous solution of hydrate of strontium.
1802. Chenevix, in Phil. Trans., XCII. 341. No precipitate took place from a mixture of barytes-water and strontia-water.
1802. Sketch of Paris, II. lxix. 387. Crystallized sulphate of strontia, in the mines of Villefort.
1812. Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 343. One combination of strontium with oxygene only is at present known; it is strontia, or strontites, the substance procured by burning strontium.
1884. Health Exhib. Catal., 19/2. Sugar, extracted from molasses by strontia. Samples of Strontia, in different stages.
