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| | Magnesium - MSN Encarta |
 | | Magnesium was first isolated by the British chemist Sir Humphry Davy in 1808. |
 | | Magnesium melts at 649°C (1200°F), boils at 1090°C (1994°F), and has a specific gravity of 1.74; the atomic weight of magnesium is 24.305. |
 | | O), well known as Epsom salt; and magnesium oxide (MgO), called burnt magnesia, or magnesia, prepared by burning magnesium in oxygen or by heating magnesium carbonate and used as a heat-refractory and insulating material, in cosmetics, as a filler in paper manufacture, and as a mild, antacid laxative. |
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