LINDA BLOOMFIELD STRONTIUM IN GLAZES

recently visited Strontian, a village in western Scotland where strontium was first discovered. It is the only place in Britain to have an element named after it. In the late 1780s, a pale green, crystalline mineral was found in a lead mine in Strontian. The mineral was named strontianite and was later found to contain a new element, strontium. The name comes from the Gaelic Sron ant-Sithein, meaning the point of the fairy