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

The barium chloride bath is kept at a temperature of from 2,000 to 2,100°F., and tools are held in it long enough to reach the same temperature.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)

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 Beringer, Cornelius

The barium chloride which adheres to the tools is brushed off, leaving the tools as dean as before heating.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)

In X-Ray laboratory a bismuth or barium meal is given, this meal consists of a pint of fluid, either buttermilk or malted milk, into which a certain amount of bismuth or barium chloride is mixed.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.