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baryta

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Noun — (chemistry) Any of a number of barium compounds, mainly barium sulfate and barium hydroxide.

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Comes from New Latin baryta, from an 18th-century Latinization of French barote, itself a 1782 coinage from Ancient Greek βαρύτης (barútēs, “heaviness”), from βαρύς (barús) plus -της (-tēs).

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