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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Example Sentences

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

Sulphuric Oxide.—To the remaining 250 c.c. of the filtrate from the "insoluble," add an excess of barium chloride.

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

Preparation: 100 grams of barium chloride are dissolved in one liter of distilled water and filtered.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.

The total per cent. of barium minus that of barium chloride gives the amount present as barium valerate, from which is calculated the per cent. of amyl alcohol.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various

Normal chromates on the addition of silver nitrate give a red precipitate of silver chromate, easily soluble in ammonia, and with barium chloride a yellow precipitate of barium chromate, insoluble in acetic acid.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various