magnesiumlike
English
Adjective
magnesiumlike (comparative more magnesiumlike, superlative most magnesiumlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of magnesium.
- 1977, Margaret Sachs, Ernest T. Jahn, Celestial passengers: UFO's and space travel:
- We sat in the car for about ten minutes watching that strange magnesiumlike glow. It did not budge.
- 2005, William L. Smallwood, Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War:
- Sometimes star-cluster shells would pop out or real bright magnesiumlike stuff would come spewing out on the ground and burn white hot for fifteen or twenty minutes.
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