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

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

Add excess of pure solid baryta and allow to stand until the reaction is again alkaline.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)

Sulphates.—Only two sulphates may be noticed—namely, gypsum, which is a sulphate of lime, with its varieties, selenite, satin-spar, and alabaster; and barytes, a sulphate of baryta.

From Geology by Geikie, James

In the year 1808 he succeeded in decomposing the three earths, lime, baryta and strontia, and in obtaining the metals calcium, barium and strontium, but not in a perfectly pure condition, or in any quantity.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

Hydrolysis with baryta, or decomposition by the ferment myrosin, gives glucose, allyl mustard oil and potassium bisulphate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various