baryta
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Also called barium monoxide. Also called calcined baryta. Also called barium protoxide. Also called barium oxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
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Also called barium hydroxide. Also called caustic baryta. Also called barium hydrate. the hydroxide, hydrated form of this compound, Ba(OH) 2 ⋅8H 2 O, used chiefly in the industrial preparation of beet sugar and for refining animal and vegetable oils.
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Origin of baryta
1800–10; < New Latin, equivalent to bary- (< Greek barýs heavy) + -ta (< Greek -( i ) tēs -ite 1 )
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But as no beauty of colour compensates for want of durability, their place should be supplied by lemon yellow proper, or chromate of baryta.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The binoxide of barium is pulverized and subjected to the action of carbonic acid to remove any unconverted caustic baryta present.
Here the track of the disused mining tram is a well-engineered road direct to the foot of the crag, where the fragments of the baryta mine are littered about.
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith
Among the infinitude of white substances, the artist finds that there are but three white pigments—those of lead, zinc, and baryta.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Tungstate of baryta answers perfectly, covers as well as white lead, and is as unalterable as zinc white.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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