  Strontium aluminum master alloy rod.  
Master alloys are used to add small amounts of alloying agents to a pot of melted metal.  They contain a much larger concentration of the agent pre-mixed with the base metal you want to amend.  In this case it's somewhere between 10% and 30% strontium mixed into aluminum (the seller wasn't sure what grade of strontium aluminum the rods are). 
Source: eBay seller consiliumdesigns 
Contributor: Theodore Gray 
Acquired: 28 February, 2009 
Text Updated: 1 March, 2009 
Price: $5 
Size: 12" 
Composition: SrAl
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