baryta
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Also called barium monoxide, calcined baryta, barium protoxide, 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, caustic baryta, 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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Etymology
Origin of baryta
1800–10; < New Latin, equivalent to bary- (< Greek barýs heavy) + -ta (< Greek -( i ) tēs -ite 1 )
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Here the track of the disused mining tram is a well-engineered road direct to the foot of the crag, where the fragments of the baryta mine are littered about.
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith
Cauk, kawk, n. chalk: sulphate of baryta or heavy spar.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The binoxide of barium is pulverized and subjected to the action of carbonic acid to remove any unconverted caustic baryta present.
The chromates are often mixed with sulphate of lead, as well as with the sulphates of baryta and lime.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
This table tells us that the affinity of baryta for sulphuric acid is greater than that of strontia for the same acid, that of strontia greater than that of potash, and so on.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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