baryta

American  

[buh-rahy-tuh] / bəˈraɪ tə /

noun

Chemistry.

1. 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.

2. 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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baryta British  

/ bəˈraɪtə, bəˈrɪtɪk /

noun

1. another name for barium oxide barium hydroxide

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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

Failing in this, he found what till then was unknown, that sulphuret of baryta would "absorb the sun's rays by day, to emit them by night."

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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.

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In the eastern part of Kentucky there are well-defined deposits of lead-bearing baryta, though, up to date, their development has not proved successful.

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The binoxide of barium is pulverized and subjected to the action of carbonic acid to remove any unconverted caustic baryta present.

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The earths were gradually distinguished from each other; lime was recognized as a substance distinct from baryta, baryta as distinct from alumina, etc.

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