barium

IPA: bˈɛriʌm

The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal.
(countable) A single atom of this element.
(medicine) barium sulfate suspension.

Examples of "barium" in Sentences

No it isn't, that's barium sulphate.
Barium sulfate is reduced to barium sulfide by carbon.
The barium coats and outlines the esophagus on the x ray.
Barium sulfate is one of the most insoluble salts of barium.
Barium sulfide is the chemical compound with the formula BaS.
Barium bromide is the chemical compound with the formula BaBr2.
Barium sulfate is irritable outside the gastrointestinal tract.
Barium fluoride BaF2 is a chemical compound of barium and fluorine.
Barium sulfate is mainly used in the imaging of the digestive system.
Again, the solvent is evaporated off and the barium acetate crystallized.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you indeed find lead antimony barium, which is confirmed gunshot residue, on that robe?
The barium is thick and white and coats everything as you swallow it, and somehow this makes everything show up on the x-ray.
The water is also often laden with barium, which is found in underground ore deposits and can cause high blood pressure, and radium, a naturally occurring radioactive substance.
All igneous rocks contain at least a trace of barium, which is probably present in the silicates, and these small quantities are the ultimate source of the more concentrated deposits.
In their attempt to separate radium from bismuth, both contained in pitchblende, Marie and Pierre found that by crystallizing the chloride of radioactive barium from a solution, they obtained crystals that were more radioactive and richer in radium than the chloride which remained resolved.