Qualla: Strontian https://qualla.com/strontian en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/4/strontian-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Strontian https://qualla.com/strontian Strontian: Introduction https://qualla.com/strontian/ Photo credit Trevor Littlewood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Open a periodic table. Find element 38. Strontium. That name comes from here, from a village on the north shore of Loch Sunart with a population that has never quite reached a thousand. In 1790, a doctor named Adair Crawford examined a mineral pulled out of the lead mines above Strontian and decided it was a new species of earth. Three years later, a Glasgow chemist named the substance after the place. Fifteen years after that, Humphry Davy isolated the element by electrolysis and renamed it strontium. Strontian is the only village in the United Kingdom whose name lives on the periodic table.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/4/strontian-wp/gfh4-strontian-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Strontian: The Name and the Loch https://qualla.com/strontian/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. In Gaelic the village is Sron an t-Sithein, the nose, or point, of the fairy hill. The fairy hill is a low rounded knoll said to be inhabited by the sidhe, the mythological people who underlie so much of Highland topography. The English-language spelling sands the edges off the G...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/4/strontian-wp/gfh4-strontian-the-name-and-the-loch.mp3 0:06 2 full Strontian: Lead, War, and a Periodic-Table Entry https://qualla.com/strontian/ Photo credit Stuart Yeates from Oxford, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sir Alexander Murray discovered galena, the principal ore of lead, in the hills here in 1722. A mine opened in 1725 in partnership with Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, and General Wade, the same Wade then building the military roads through Highland Scotland. The lead went in...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/4/strontian-wp/gfh4-strontian-lead-war-and-a-periodic-table-entry.mp3 0:06 3 full Strontian: A Floating Church https://qualla.com/strontian/ Photo credit Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1843 a third of the Church of Scotland walked out in protest at state interference in clerical appointments, founding the Free Church. The local Free Church congregation around Strontian, five hundred strong, asked Sir James Riddell, who owned the entire Ardnamurchan peninsula...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/4/strontian-wp/gfh4-strontian-a-floating-church.mp3 0:06 4 full Strontian: A Miner Named Duncan Cameron https://qualla.com/strontian/ Photo credit Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1851 a rockfall in the Strontian lead mine killed a miner named Duncan Cameron. The inquest that followed pulled together testimony from workers who had been warning for years that the workings were unsafe. One miner stated plainly that the supporting partitions left by the pr...

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