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

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)

Constant white is a sulphate of baryta, found native and known under the name of heavy-spar, or prepared artificially by adding sulphuric acid, or a soluble sulphate, to a solution of a barytic salt.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

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

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 Smith, W. P. Haskett

Is a mixture of chloride and oxide of lead, formed by precipitating a solution of chloride of lead with soda, potash, lime, or baryta, in the caustic or hydrated state.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas