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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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

Fourth—The soap is precipitated with 15 to 20 cubic centimeters of the 10 per cent. barium chloride solution.

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

An example required, in duplicate experiment, 18.5 c.c. and 18.7 c.c. of barium chloride, equivalent to 18.7 per cent. of sulphur.

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

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 Cornelius Beringer

Caffein aids the action of nitrates, acetanilid, ethyl alcohol and amyl alcohol, and increases the toxicity of barium chloride.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers