barytes
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of barytes
First recorded in 1780–90; see origin at baryta
Example Sentences
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There are manufactures of leather gloves and other goods, and in the neighbourhood barytes and coal mines and extensive market gardens.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
The author imputes it to the sulphate of barytes, with which the district abounds, which he states is a "poison to animals."
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Numbers six to fifteen, barytes, perhaps five dollars a ton; no good.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
Yellow mamillary quartz, incrusted with sulphate of barytes and hæmatitic iron.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The other minerals found in the concentrates are pebbles and fragments of pyrope, zircon, cyanite, chrome-diopside, enstatite, a green pyroxene, mica, ilmenite, magnetite, chromite, hornblende, olivine, barytes, calcite and pyrites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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