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BARYTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baryta mean?
• BARYTA (noun)
The noun BARYTA has 1 sense:
1. any of several compounds of barium
Familiarity information: BARYTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several compounds of barium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("baryta" is a kind of...):
atomic number 56; Ba; barium (a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baryta"):
barium hydroxide (white poisonous crystals; made by dissolving barium oxide in water)
barium monoxide; barium oxide; barium protoxide (an oxide of barium; a whitish toxic powder)
barium dioxide; barium peroxide (a white toxic powder obtained by heating barium oxide in air)
Derivation:
barytic (of or relating to or containing baryta)
Context examples
It was the bisulphate of baryta.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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