The followinguses for magnesium are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I would be delighted to receive corrections as well as additionalreferenced uses.

• used in flares and pyrotechnics, including incendiary bombs. It was used in flash photography,
• it is lighter than aluminium, and is used in alloys used for aircraft, car engine casings, and missile construction
• it is used a reducing agent for the production of uranium and other metals from their salts
• the hydroxide (milk of magnesia), chloride, sulphate (Epsom salts), and the citrate are used in medicine
• magnesium oxide is refractory and used as bricks and liners in furnaces
• used to make organomagnesium compounds (Grignard reagents), useful in organic synthesis
• used in computers for radio-frequency shielding