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strontian (dict)
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StrontianStrontian is a village in Ardgour, in the Scottish Highlands. The mineral strontianite was discovered here, from which the element strontium was first isolated. The village name, Srn an t-Stheinn in Gaelic, translates as the promontary of the stheann, a stheann being a low, round hill inhabited by the mythological Sth.
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