Origin of name of the element: Strontium is named after Strontian, a small town in Scotland
Year of discovery: 1790
How was the element discovered?
And in 1808, Humphry Davy in London isolated the soft, silvery metal of the new element using electrolysis. The Scottish village was called Strontian, the mineral found there, strontianite and the new element strontium.
Colour: silver-white yellowish
Density: 2.6 g.cm-3
Melting point: 769 °C
Boiling point: 1384 °C
What is the property which makes the element to exist in
a particular state?
Strontium is a soft, silver-yellow, alkaline-earth metal. It has three allotropic crystalline forms and in its physical and chemical properties it is similar to calcium and barium. Strontium reacts vigorously with water and quickly tarnishes in air, so it must be stored out of contact with air and water.
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