Strontium is a soft silvery or yellowish metal that behaves in a similar manner to the other alkaline earth metals in group 2. Although abundant in the Earth's crust — ranking 15th at 340 ppm ...

A radioactive isotope of strontium has been detected in American milk for the first time since Japan's nuclear disaster—in a sample from Hilo, Hawaii—the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Strontium‐loaded hydrogel scaffolds to promote gingival fibroblast function. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2022; 111 (1): 6 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.37439 ...

Strontium is a metal in group IIA of the periodic table with atomic number 38, an atomic weight of 87.62, and a density of 2.6 Mg/m 3. Its melting point is 768 C, and it boils at 1380 C. The ...

Finding the heavy element strontium in the afterglow of a neutron star merger (illustrated) provides the most direct evidence yet that these collisions set off an exotic chain of chemical ...

More information: Shahad Bakheet Alsharif et al, Strontium‐loaded hydrogel scaffolds to promote gingival fibroblast function, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A (2022).

Strontium, they discovered, can promote the function of fibroblasts – a type of cell that forms connective tissues and plays a critical role in wound healing.

Tested in the laboratory, the strontium-loaded scaffolds increased the cellular activity of isolated gingival fibroblasts cells, while the hydrogel scaffold alone had little effect on the cells.

Strontium is required in defined media for the development of normal shells and statoliths in the opisthobranch gastropod, Aplysia californica Cooper, 1863. Embryos grown in artificial seawater ...

This is the first report reviewing some of the aspects of the recovery and utilization of caesium and strontium from high level waste and the consequent impacts on high level waste management strategy ...