Magnesium Quotes:

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

- Victor Grignard

topic: Two, Kind, Magnesium, Substitution

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

- Mark Z. Danielewski

topic: Eye, Dark, Littles, Magnesium, House Of Leaves

Chocolate is an extraordinary source of key stress-fighting minerals including: magnesium, iron, chromium, vanadium, copper, zinc, manganese, and phosphorus. These minerals favorably influence a woman's hormone system, which explains why chocolate has always been considered important for a woman's monthly cycle.

- David Wolfe

topic: Stress, Fighting, Iron, Copper, Zinc

All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.127, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Oxygen, Blood, Iron, Nitrogen, Magnesium

There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

source: "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter III, Section 24), circa 15 BC.

topic: Country, Spring, Voice, Magnesium

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.

- Frederic Joliot-Curie

topic: Light, Preparation, Months, Magnesium, Aluminium

It's important to understand that calcium isn't just about what you eat; it's also about what you keep. Acidic animal products mine minerals like potassium, magnesium and calcium from our bodies. In fact, the countries that consume the most dairy have the highest rates of hip fracture and osteoporosis.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Country, Animal, Osteoporosis, Potassium, Calcium

I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction; it was done in a test tube, which he watched carefully as he moved it gently by hand over a flame for three quarters of an hour. The test tube was the apparatus to Baeyer.

- Richard Willstatter

source: Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”

topic: Flames, Hands, Iodine, Magnesium