Definitions for baryta

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baryta ba·ry·ta

Spelling: [buh-rahy-tuh]

IPA: /bəˈraɪ tə/

Baryta is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in baryta (aabrty).

Definitions for baryta

noun

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 of baryta

1800-10; New Latin, equivalent to bary- (Greek barýs heavy) + -ta (Greek -(i)tēs -ite¹)

Examples for baryta

Strontia and baryta will flow into the charcoal, but lime will not.

The presence of baryta communicates a green color to the flame.

It is a combination of deutoxide and peroxide, with some baryta.

A metallic radical or element, of which baryta is the chief oxide, and somewhat extensively distributed.

baryta forms white crystalline salts with acids, which are all poisonous with the exception of barium sulphate.

Or chromate of baryta, is exceedingly difficult to make well.

The compounds of strontia are not poisonous, like those of baryta.

Cyanide of potassium and sulphovinate of baryta, equal parts, are mixed and distilled in a glass retort by a moderate heat.

These four are baryta, strontia, lime (calcia), and magnesia.

Insoluble white sulphate of baryta falls, while the solution, filtered and evaporated, yields the new chlorate in crystals.