Strontian

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • small village Scotland (constituent country) that gives its name to the element strontium and the mineral strontianite which was discovered there

Origin

  • Place name is from Scottish Gaelic sròn an sìthean, "nose of the fairy hill", said to be inhabited by the mythological sìdhe.

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