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Baryta

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of several barium compounds, such as barium sulfate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any of several compounds of barium, especially barium sulphate and barium hydroxide.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Barium oxid, BaO: also called heavy earth, because it is the heaviest of the earths, its specific gravity being 4.7.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any of several compounds of barium

Word Usage

"The baryta is a heavy grayish porous substance prepared by carefully igniting the nitrate of barium; and of this each retort having the above dimensions holds about 125 lb."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

Ba barium atomic number 56

Cross Reference

baryta-water

Hyponym

barium dioxide barium protoxide barium oxide barium monoxide barium peroxide barium hydroxide

Form

barium

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

strontia lithia potassa magnesia potass amyloxide protoxide bismuth alkali barium