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heavy earth

noun

  1. another name for barium oxide


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I just heard Anderson Cooper bemoan the fact that he had seen no heavy earth moving equipment on the scene.

About them had laughed and swirled the boys now lying dead under the heavy earth of Flemish fields.

The officers all had heavy earth barricades built in front of their tents, and these furnished fairly good protection.

The heated air and the heavy earth had driven the very dead upward for coolness' sake.

This march to Tipton (36 miles) was made on a miry, heavy earth road parallel to the railroad, and but a little distance from it.

Revulsion shook us at the mere thought of getting down in a hot, glaring ravine and moving heavy earth and rocks.

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