barium

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from baryta +‎ -ium.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛəɹɪəm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪəm

barium (usually uncountable, plural bariums)

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

Barium sample

• barium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gillespite
• heavy spar
• witherite

• Barium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

• BIMARU, Umbria

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barium (uncountable)

1. barium

barium

1. barium

Borrowed from English barium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.ri.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧ri‧um
• Rhymes: -aːriʏm

barium n (uncountable)

1. barium

• bariumsulfaat

• bariet

From English barium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑri.um/, [ˈbɑ̝ri.um]
• Rhymes: -ɑri.um
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧ri‧um

barium

1. barium

• “barium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• rumbia

Roughly βαρύς (barús, “heavy”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ri.um/, [ˈbäriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ri.um/, [ˈbäːrium]

barium n (genitive bariī); second declension

1. (New Latin) barium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• barium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “barium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “barium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “barium”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaː˨ʁjɔ˧m]

barium n

1. (uncountable) barium
2. A part of barium

From English barium, from Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús).

• IPA^(key): [bariom], [bariəm], [bɛriəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

barium

1. barium (chemical element)

From English barium, from baryta.

barium n (definite singular bariumet, uncountable)

1. barium, chemical element, symbol Ba

• “barium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “barium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English barium, from baryta.

barium n (definite singular bariumet, uncountable)

1. barium, chemical element, symbol Ba

• “barium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.