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magnesiaCommon name for magnesium oxide. Magnesia
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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. 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. (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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