magnesiumlike

comparative more magnesiumlike · superlative most magnesiumlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of magnesium.

   We sat in the car for about ten minutes watching that strange magnesiumlike glow. It did not budge.

   1977, Margaret Sachs, Ernest T. Jahn, Celestial passengers: UFO's and space travel

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   Sometimes star-cluster shells would pop out or real bright magnesiumlike stuff would come spewing out on the ground and burn white hot for fifteen or twenty minutes.

   2005, William L. Smallwood, Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War