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Barium   /bˈɛriəm/   Listen
Barium

noun
(Rarely written barytum)
1.
A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite.  Synonyms: atomic number 56, Ba.



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"Barium" Quotes from Famous Books



... sulphuric, boracic, silicic, nitric, formic, nitrous nitric, and carbonic acids. Mrs. Peterkin tasted each, and said the flavor was pleasant, but not precisely that of coffee. So then he tried a little calcium, aluminum, barium, and strontium, a little clear bitumen, and a half of a third of a sixteenth of a grain of arsenic. This gave rather a pretty color; but still Mrs. Peterkin ungratefully said it tasted of anything but coffee. The chemist was not discouraged. He put in a little belladonna and ...
— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale



Words linked to "Barium" :   metal, heavy spar, baric, metallic element, baryta, barite, barytes



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