magnesium

See also Magnesium, and magnésium

English

Chemical element
Mg	Previous: sodium (Na)
	Next: aluminium (Al)

Etymology

From New Latin magnēsium, from Magnēsia (“region in Thessaly”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌmæɡˈniːziəm/, X-SAMPA: /%m{g"ni:zi@m/
• (US) IPA: /ˌmæɡˈniziəm/, /ˌmæɡˈniʒəm/, X-SAMPA: /%m{g"nizi@m/, /%m{g"niZ@m/

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• Rhymes: -iːziəm, -iʒəm
• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧si‧um

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. A light, flammable, silvery metal, and a chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12.
   • 1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

     The building looked only like a wall glowing in the firelight, but sometimes a barrage of magnesium blue light made its windowframes jump out of the darkness.

Derived terms

Derived terms

calcium magnesium carbonate calcium magnesium silicate magnesic magnesium-24 magnesium-25 magnesium-26 magnesium aluminate magnesium aluminium oxide, magnesium aluminum oxide magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate magnesium carbonate magnesium chlorate magnesium chloride magnesium chlorite magnesium citrate magnesium diboride magnesium fluoride magnesium gallate

magnesium hydroxide magnesium lamp magnesium laureth sulfate, magnesium laureth sulphate magnesium light magnesium mica magnesium nitrate magnesium nitride magnesium oxide magnesium perchlorate magnesium peroxide magnesium ribbon magnesium silicate magnesium stearate magnesium sulfate, magnesium sulphate magnesium sulfide, magnesium sulphide magnesium wire manganoso-magnesium alum potassium magnesium chloride hexahydrate

Related terms

Related terms

magnalium magnelium Magnesia magnesia

magnesite magnox, Magnox mag wheel

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: magnesium (af)
• Albanian: magneziumi (sq)
• Arabic: مغنسيوم (ar) (mağnísyum) m
• Armenian: մագնեզիում (hy) (magnezium)
• Asturian: magnesiu (ast)
• Azeri: maqnezium (az)
• Basque: magnesioa (eu)
• Belarusian: магній (be) (mahnij) m
• Bengali: ম্যাগনেসিয়াম (bn)
• Breton: magneziom m, magnesiom
• Bulgarian: магнезий (bg) (magnézij) m
• Catalan: magnesi (ca)
• Cebuano: magnesium
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎂 (cmn), 镁 (cmn) (měi)

• Cornish: magnysyum
• Corsican: magnesiu (co)
• Czech: hořčík (cs)
• Danish: magnesium (da) n
• Dhivehi: މެގްނީޒިއަމް (dv)
• Dutch: magnesium (nl) n
• Esperanto: magnezio (eo)
• Estonian: magneesium (et)
• Faroese: magnesium (fo)
• Finnish: magnesium (fi)
• French: magnésium (fr) m
• Friulian: magnesi
• Galician: magnesio (gl)
• Georgian: მაგნიუმი (ka) (magniumi)
• German: Magnesium (de) n
• Greek: μαγνήσιο (el) (magnísio) n
• Haitian Creole: manyezyòm
• Hawaiian: makanekiuma
• Hebrew: מגנזיום (he) (magnezium)
• Hindi: भ्राजातु (hi)
• Hungarian: magnézium (hu)
• Icelandic: magnesín (is) n, magnín (is) n, magníum (is) n, magnesíum (is) n
• Ido: magnezio (io)
• Indonesian: magnesium (id)
• Interlingua: magnesium
• Irish: maignéisiam (ga)
• Italian: magnesio (it) m
• Japanese: マグネシウム (ja) (maguneshiumu)
• Javanese: magnesium (jv)
• Kannada: ಮ್ಯಗ್ನೀಶಿಯಮ್ (kn)
• Kashubian: magnéz
• Kazakh: магний (kk) (magnij)
• Khmer: ម៉ាញ៉េស៊ីយ៉ុម (km) (maañeesiiyoom)

• Korean: 마그네슘 (ko) (mageunesyum)
• Kurdish: magnezyûm (ku)
• Latin: magnesium (la)
• Latvian: magnijs (lv)
• Lithuanian: magnis (lt)
• Lojban: lidgusyjinme (jbo)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Magnesium

  Dutch Low Saxon: magnesium

• Luxembourgish: Magnesium (lb)
• Macedonian: магнезиум (mk) (magnezium)
• Malay: magnesium (ms)
• Malayalam: മഗ്നീഷ്യം (ml)
• Maltese: magneżju
• Manx: magnaishum (gv)
• Maori: konupora (mi)
• Mongolian: магни (ᠮᠠᠭᠨᠢ, magni)
• Navajo: béésh łikoní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: magnesium (no) m and n

  Nynorsk: magnesium (nn) m and n

• Occitan: magnèsi (oc)
• Persian: منیزیم (fa)
• Polish: magnez (pl) m
• Portuguese: magnésio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮੈਗਨੇਸ਼ਿਅਮ (pa)
• Quechua: qunta q'illay (qu)
• Romanian: magneziu (ro) n
• Russian: магний (ru) (mágnij) m
• Scottish Gaelic: maignèisiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic магнезијум (sh), магнезиј (sh)

  Roman: magnezium (sh), magnezij (sh)

• Sicilian: magnesiu (scn)
• Slovak: horčík (sk) m
• Slovene: magnezij (sl)
• Spanish: magnesio (es) m
• Swahili: magnesi (sw)
• Swedish: magnesium (sv) n
• Tajik: магний (tg) (magni')
• Tamil: மக்னீசியம் (ta), வல்லகுவம் (ta) (vallaguvam)
• Thai: แมกนีเซียม (th) (maeknīsiam)
• Turkish: magnezyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: магній (uk) (máhnij) m
• Uzbek: магний (uz) (magniy)
• Vietnamese: magiê (vi)
• Welsh: magnesiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: magnesium

See also

• artinite
• Birmabright
• bischofite
• brucite
• carnallite
• deweylite
• epsomite
• gymnite
• kieserite
• lansfordite
• nesquehonite
• nigari
• olivine
• sellaite
• talc

Anagrams

• mesangium

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mag'ne.sium/, [maʊ̯'neˀɕɔm]

Noun

magnesium n (singular definite magnesiummet, not used in plural form)

1. (chemistry) magnesium

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
Mg	Previous: natrium (Na)
	Next: aluminium (Al)

Pronunciation

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Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

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Finnish

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Noun

magnesium

1. magnesium

Declension

Declension of magnesium (type risti) singular plural nominative magnesium – genitive magnesiumin – partitive magnesiumia – accusative magnesium magnesiumin – inessive magnesiumissa – elative magnesiumista – illative magnesiumiin – adessive magnesiumilla – ablative magnesiumilta – allative magnesiumille – essive magnesiumina – translative magnesiumiksi – instructive – – abessive magnesiumitta – comitative – –

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Etymology

From Magnēsia, a region in Thessaly.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /maŋˈneː.si.um/

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• (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /maˈɲe.si.um/

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Adjective

magnēsium

1. nominative neuter singular of magnēsius
2. accusative masculine singular of magnēsius
3. accusative neuter singular of magnēsius
4. vocative neuter singular of magnēsius

Noun

magnēsium (genitive magnēsiī); n, second declension

1. magnesium (chemical element 12)
   • 1782, D. Laurentius & Gulielmo Huntero, "Nova experimenta Chemica quae ad penitiorem Acidi e Pinguedine eruti cognitionem valere videntur", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part I, page 28

     Magnesium nitratum nullum converſionem expertum eſt a noſtri acidi admixtione.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	magnēsium	magnēsia
genitive	magnēsiī	magnēsiōrum
dative	magnēsiō	magnēsiīs
accusative	magnēsium	magnēsia
ablative	magnēsiō	magnēsiīs
vocative	magnēsium	magnēsia

Related terms

• Magnēsia
• magnēsius

Descendants

• English: magnesium
• Galician: magnesio
• Italian: magnesio
• Portuguese: magnésio
• Spanish: magnesio

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mɑ˧ˈɲeː˨ʒɔ˧m]

Noun

magnesium n

1. (uncountable) magnesium
2. A part of magnesium

Inflection

Declension of magnesium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	magnesium	magnesia	magnesieke	magnesiekes
Genitive	magnesiums	magnesia	magnesiekes	magnesiekes
Locative	magnesieës	magnesieëser	magnesieëske	magnesieëskes
Dative¹	magnesiumme	—	magnesieke	—
Accusative¹	magnesium	—	magnesieke	—

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
Mg	Previous: natrium (Na)
	Next: aluminium (Al)

Etymology

From English magnesium, from New Latin magnēsium.

Alternative forms

• مݢنيسيوم

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maknesiom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

magnesium (Jawi spelling مݢنيسيوم)

1. magnesium (chemical element)

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maŋˈneːsɪɵm/

Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Declension

Declension of magnesium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	magnesium	magnesiumet
genitive	magnesiums	magnesiumets

Declension of magnesium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	magnesium	magnesiet
genitive	magnesiums	magnesiets