barium oxide

barium oxide
noun
an oxide of barium; a whitish toxic powder
Hypernyms: ↑baryta

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noun
: any oxide of barium; especially : the monoxide BaO obtained usually as a white to grayish toxic powder by heating barium carbonate or barium sulfate with carbon and used chiefly in making barium hydroxide and barium peroxide, in coating cathodes of electron tubes, and as a drying agent

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Chem.
baryta (def. 1). Also called barium monoxide, barium protoxide.

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