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tə noun Chemistry.
1.
Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. 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 caustic baryta, barium hydroxide, 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.
Origin:
1800–10; < Neo-Latin, equivalent to bary- (< Greek barýs heavy) + -ta (< Greek -(i)tēs -ite1)
1800–10; < Neo-Latin, equivalent to bary- (< Greek barýs heavy) + -ta (< Greek -(i)tēs -ite1)
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baryta (bəˈraɪtə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| barium oxide another name for barium hydroxide | |
| [C19: New Latin, from Greek barutēs weight, from barus heavy] | |
| barytic | |
| —adj | |
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| baryta (bəˈraɪtə) | |
| —n | |
| barium oxide another name for barium hydroxide | |
| [C19: New Latin, from Greek barutēs weight, from barus heavy] | |
| barytic | |
| —adj | |
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