baryta

[buh-rahy-tuh]

noun Chemistry.

Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.

Also called caustic baryta, barium hydroxide, barium hydrate. the hydroxide, hydrated form of this compound, Ba(OH)2⋅8H2O, used chiefly in the industrial preparation of beet sugar and for refining animal and vegetable oils.

Origin of baryta

1800–10; < New Latin, equivalent to bary- (< Greek barýs heavy) + -ta (< Greek -(i)tēs -ite¹)

Related formsba·ryt·ic

[buh-rit-ik] /bəˈrɪt ɪk/, adjective

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for baryta

Historical Examples of baryta

Or chromate of baryta, is exceedingly difficult to make well.
Field's Chromatography
George Field
These four are baryta, strontia, lime (calcia), and magnesia.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure
It is a combination of deutoxide and peroxide, with some baryta.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure
The compounds of strontia are not poisonous, like those of baryta.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure
A metallic radical or element, of which baryta is the chief oxide, and somewhat extensively distributed.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I
Arnold Cooley

British Dictionary definitions for baryta

baryta

noun

another name for barium oxide, barium hydroxide

Derived Formsbarytic (bəˈrɪtɪk), adjective

Word Origin for baryta

C19: New Latin, from Greek barutēs weight, from barus heavy

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012