Mg



Magnesium was discovered by Sir Humphry Davy in 1808. It's found in large deposits in minerals like magnesite and dolomite. Magnesium is a silvery-white soft metal. Magnesium is used in photography, flares, incendiary bombs, pyrotechnics. Large amounts of 26Mg have been found in the research of some carbonaceous chondrite [|meteorites]. Magnesium-26 is a stable [|isotope] that is very similar to the element [|aluminum].



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