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Definition of Barium oxide
1. Noun. An oxide of barium; a whitish toxic powder.
Medical Definition of Barium oxide
1. BaO;it is caustic, forming the strong base, Ba(OH)2, in water; used as a dehydrating agent. Synonym: baryta. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barium Oxide
Literary usage of Barium oxide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"(2) The carbonate may also be converted into barium oxide by exposing it to the
strongest ... barium oxide as prepared by the above methods is generally a ..."
2. Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry: A Course of Laboratory and Classroom Study by Arthur Alphonzo Blanchard (1910)
"barium oxide AND BARIUM HYDROXIDE FROM BARIUM CARBONATE The commercial method of
preparing calcium oxide (quicklime) consists in heating calcium carbonate ..."
3. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Thomas Atkinson Lawson (1897)
"By adding an aqueous solution of barium oxide to the resultant solution, the
whole of the peroxide contained in the solution maybe precipitated as a pure ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"barium oxide, BaO. Sol. in H2O with evolution of heat. Solubility in NaOH+Aq.
<S'e» Barium hydroxide. Easily sol. in dil. H\O3, or HCl+Aq. Solubility in ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"(1) Barium nitrate heated progressively, fuses, then decomposes with the liberation
of nitric fumes and much frothing leaving a porous mass of barium oxide. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"In both cases the water combines with the oxide, the sulphur .trioxide being
converted into sulphuric acid: — and the barium oxide into barium hydroxide ..."
7. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1910)
"Subtract this last from the barium oxide value of the barium chloride solution (which
must ... The saponification value is also calculated as barium oxide ..."
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