Magnesium is widely used in the manufacturing of mobile phones, laptop computers, cameras, and other electronic components. The brilliant light it produces when ignited is made use of in photography, flares, pyrotechnics and incendiary bombs. Magnesium compounds such as the hydroxide (milk of magnesia), sulfate (Epsom salts), chloride and citrate are used for medicinal purposes.
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