Courtenay Stanley Goss Phillips
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LOCATION: Oxford OX1 4JD, United Kingdom
Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford; Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Coauthor of Inorganic Chemistry.
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Alkaline-earth metal, any of the six chemical elements that comprise Group 2 (IIa) of the periodic table. The elements are beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra). Prior to the 19th century, substances that were nonmetallic, insoluble in water, and…
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