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
  • When animals and humans eat plants, strontium makes its way into their bones and teeth.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • And when animals eat grass from around these rocks, the strontium becomes part of their tissues.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
  • In these clocks, a laser is shined through a cloud of atoms — usually of strontium or ytterbium.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 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
  • For instance, red comes from strontium, white comes from titanium and blues are made with copper.
    — Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2024
  • For instance, barium compounds emit green, red comes from strontium and blues are made with copper.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 30 June 2016
  • By analyzing the strontium, the researchers hope to tell where the people lived.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Human bones absorb the element strontium through water and plant foods.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The soil and water in a region has a distinctive ratio of strontium isotopes.
    — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
  • 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 strontium ratio in the tooth enamel confirmed that the ancient baboon had not been born in Egypt.
    — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Their analysis revealed that all three stars hold very low abundances of strontium and barium.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • Her colleagues also analyzed isotopes of strontium and oxygen that the teeth and bones had absorbed.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
  • The strontium lattice clock is now being used to probe fundamental physics and could serve as a dark matter detector.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2020
  • Meanwhile Wooller and his colleagues were looking at the strontium and other isotopes in Kik’s tusk.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The strontium levels within the bones matched with western Britain, a region that includes west Wales.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2018
  • At their lab, the scientists analyzed the flakes for sulfur, oxygen and strontium isotopes.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Before there was much human activity, the strontium isotope ratio shows that the caribou spent much of their summer along the coast.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The crystal is actually a metal oxide comprising strontium, iron, and cobalt.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2025

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