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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Pyroxylin is made by treating cotton with equal parts of nitric and sulphuric acids, then washing with water till the latter ceases to give a precipitate with chloride of baryta; then dry in the air.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
It may be readily recognized by the white precipitate which it forms when passed through lime or baryta water.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
By several methods, manganate of baryta may be obtained either as an emerald-green, a bluish-green, or a pale green.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
Binoxide of Barium, BaO2, is made by subjecting the oxide or caustic baryta, BaO, to a stream of oxygen or common air at a high temperature.
Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. ÷ earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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