baryta
Americannoun
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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.
noun
Other Word Forms
- barytic adjective
Etymology
Origin of baryta
1800–10; < New Latin, equivalent to bary- (< Greek barýs heavy) + -ta (< Greek -( i ) tēs -ite 1 )
Example Sentences
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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 Salter, Thomas
Constant white is a sulphate of baryta, found native and known under the name of heavy-spar, or prepared artificially by adding sulphuric acid, or a soluble sulphate, to a solution of a barytic salt.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
Sir H. Davy tried to electrolyse baryta, but was unsuccessful; later attempts were made by him using barium chloride in the presence of mercury.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
In barytobiotite and manganophyllite the magnesia is partly replaced by baryta and manganous oxide respectively.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
The barium and magnesium salts of this acid are formed when baryta and magnesia are fused with cobalt sesquioxide.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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