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magnesia

Common name for magnesium oxide.

Magnesia

Name of two ancient cities of Asia Minor. One was in Lydia, near Smyrna; the other further south, in Ionia, near Ephesus.

Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern Manisa, Turkey), 64 km/40 mi northeast of Smyrna, was the site of the battle in which the Seleucid king Antiochus III was defeated by a Roman army under Lucius Cornelius Scipio in 190 BC.

Magnesia ad Maeandrum, in Ionia, was on a small tributary of the Maeander. According to tradition it was founded by colonists from Thessaly and Crete. Commercially it enjoyed great prosperity until Roman imperial times, when it disappears from the records. The exiled Athenian politician Themistocles died here in about 460 BC.



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of chloride of sodium; then, in a smaller quantity, chlorides of magnesium and of potassium, bromide of magnesium, sulphate of magnesia, sulphate and carbonate of lime.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
To this day pills are made behind its tall prcscription desk--pills rolled out on its own pill-tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill-boxes.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
(from the Argo) to look for water and was left behind in Magnesia near the place called Aphetae because of his desertion there.
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