1748–1795
Adair Crawford
Discovered strontium in 1790.
Element
38SrStrontium
1790
In 1790 Adair Crawford, an Edinburgh doctor, showed that a rock from a lead mine at Strontian, in the Scottish Highlands, held an unknown substance. The element was named strontium, after the village.
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