barium chloride

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, BaCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in the synthesis of pigments and in the manufacture of rodenticides and pharmaceuticals.

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barium chloride

He grew up in Bulgaria as it was manhandled first by the fascists and then the communists, who converted young Ulrich’s passion for chemistry into a sentence at a barium chloride factory.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2011

When cold, extract with water, and determine the sulphur volumetrically with standard barium chloride.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

As seen under our modern microscopes, there are few prettier sights than the crystallization of such salts as sal ammoniac, potassic nitrate, barium chloride, etc.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by John Phin

Sulphites give with barium chloride a precipitate soluble in hydrochloric acid.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons

If necessary, evaporate the bulk to about 200 c.c., render faintly acid with hydrochloric acid, and add 20 c.c. of solution of barium chloride; allow to stand for half-an-hour, and decant through a filter.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

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