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About 8% by weight of cathode-ray tubes is strontium oxide, which has been the major use of strontium since 1970. [3] [4] Color televisions and other devices containing color cathode-ray tubes sold in the United States are required by law to use strontium in the faceplate to block X-ray emission (these X-ray emitting TVs are no longer in production).
Most of the world's production of strontium used to be consumed in the production of cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays. The glass contained strontium and barium oxide to block X-rays. Consuming 75% of production, the primary use for strontium was in glass for colour television cathode-ray tubes, [56] where it prevented X-ray emission.
Strontium peroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula Sr O 2 that exists in both anhydrous and octahydrate form, both of which are white solids. The anhydrous form adopts a structure similar to that of calcium carbide .
Overlay: lanthanum/strontium (blue), manganese (purple), oxygen (red). Lanthanum strontium manganite (LSM or LSMO) is an oxide ceramic material with the general formula La 1−x Sr x MnO 3, where x describes the doping level. It has a perovskite-based crystal structure, which has the general form ABO 3.
The procedure uses different solvents and flames to view the test flame through a cobalt blue glass or didymium glass to filter the interfering light of contaminants such as sodium. [12] Flame tests are subject of a number of limitations. The range of elements positively detectable under standard conditions is small.
The ratio 87 Sr/ 86 Sr is the parameter typically reported in geologic investigations; [4] ratios in minerals and rocks have values ranging from about 0.7 to greater than 4.0 (see rubidium–strontium dating). Because strontium has an electron configuration similar to that of calcium, it readily substitutes for calcium in minerals.
Distrontium ruthenate, also known as strontium ruthenate, is an oxide of strontium and ruthenium with the chemical formula Sr 2 RuO 4. It was the first reported perovskite superconductor that did not contain copper .
Strontium and barium have fewer applications than the lighter alkaline earth metals. Strontium carbonate is used in the manufacturing of red fireworks. [75] Pure strontium is used in the study of neurotransmitter release in neurons. [76] [77] Radioactive strontium-90 finds some use in RTGs, [78] [79] which utilize its decay heat.