mg

Noun

• a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)

• one thousandth (1/1,000) gram

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  magnesium , Mg , atomic number 12 , milligram