ALL meanings of barium
bar·i·um
B b - uncountable noun barium Barium is a soft, silvery-white metal. 3
- noun barium a soft silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline earth group. It is used in bearing alloys and compounds used as pigments. Symbol: Ba; atomic no: 56; atomic wt: 137.327; valency: 2; relative density: 3.5; melting pt: 729°C; boiling pt: 1805°C 3
- noun barium a silver-white, slightly malleable, metallic chemical element, one of the alkaline-earth metals, found as a carbonate or sulfate and used in alloys: symbol, Ba; at. no., 56 3
- noun barium a whitish, malleable, active, divalent, metallic element, occurring in combination chiefly as barite or as witherite. Symbol: Ba; atomic weight: 137.34; atomic number: 56; specific gravity: 3.5 at 20°C. 1
- noun barium chemical element 1
- noun barium The chemical element of atomic number 56, a soft white reactive metal of the alkaline earth group. 1
- noun barium A metallic chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. 0
- noun barium (Countable Noun) A single atom of this element. 0