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barium
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barium \Ba"ri*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. bary`s heavy.] (Chem.) One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1808, coined in Modern Latin by its discoverer, English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), because it was present in the mineral barytes "heavy spar" (barium sulphate), so named by Lavoisier from Greek barys "heavy" (see grave (adj.)). The metal is ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN enema ▪ Distal small bowel lesions may also be shown by reflux at barium enema or by entering the terminal ileum at colonoscopy. ▪ At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite [syn: Ba , atomic number 56 ]
Usage examples of barium.
The glaucous green shivered into calcimine, then livid purple, then dazzling alizarin and fuchsine and chrome orange and barium yellow.
Dark eyes in tanned, tattooed Wickan faces held cold and firm on Baria and Mesker Setral and their warriors.
Where Baria leads, Mesker follows, or will you now cross blades with your brother?
Four of them fell in the assaults at El Obeid, two at Baria, and the last two have now been killed.
The solution contains the barium as baric chloride mixed, perhaps, with salts of strontium or lime.
They bombarded uranium with slow neutrons and split it up into masurium, barium, gamma rays and more neutrons, thus establishing a cyclic process.
Pulling out his own notebook, wetting a thumb and leafing back the pages, he began to walk Angleton through his series of barium meals.
A sheet of paper coated with barium platinocyanide was fluorescing, even though it was shut off from the tube.
The salts of barium give no precipitate with sulphuretted hydrogen in either acid or alkaline solution, but with sulphuric acid they at once give a precipitate, which is insoluble in acetate of soda.
Run: part of the Gastrointestinal work-up, a series of tests, including upper GI series with small bowel follow-through, barium enema, sigmoidoscopy, liver scan, gallbladder series etc.
When cold, extract with water, and determine the sulphur volumetrically with standard barium chloride.
Dark eyes in tanned, tattooed Wickan faces held cold and firm on Baria and Mesker Setral and their warriors.
Then there's cerium one fortyfour, plutonium two thirtynine, barium oneforty.
Elements that include barium, antimony, cobalt, molybdenum and vanadium that are obtained from toxic minerals such as stibnite, barytine, patronite and mispickel.
Barium, salts of, action on Drosera, 183 Bases of salts, preponderant action of, on Drosera, 186 Basis, fibrous, of bone, its digestion by Drosera, 108 Belladonna, extract of, action on Drosera, 84 Bennett, Mr.