"magnesium" in the noun sense
1. magnesium, Mg, atomic number 12
a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
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