Strontium Sr · 38
solid metal · period 5, group 2 · s-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Strontium
History of the character
Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 锶, traditional 鍶.
- 1905 鎴 xī 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
- 1933 鍶 sī 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation the character Dù had used for scandium
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese ストロンチウム Korean 스트론튬 Vietnamese stronti
Western name from Scottish Gaelic via English Strontian, “proper name”. Compare all
Unicode
U+9536 in CJK Unified Ideographs