barium chloride

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, BaCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in the synthesis of pigments and in the manufacture of rodenticides and pharmaceuticals.

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He grew up in Bulgaria as it was manhandled first by the fascists and then the communists, who converted young Ulrich’s passion for chemistry into a sentence at a barium chloride factory.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2011

The barium chloride which adheres to the tools is brushed off, leaving the tools as dean as before heating.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)

In the first portion the barium is determined; in the second the barium chloride.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various

As seen under our modern microscopes, there are few prettier sights than the crystallization of such salts as sal ammoniac, potassic nitrate, barium chloride, etc.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

A mixture of equal parts of cryolite and barium chloride is very good in soldering bronze or aluminum alloys.

From Practical Mechanics for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough