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barite



bar·ite [ ˈber-ˌīt]



barite   
noun
[ˈber-ˌīt]

Definition of barite

: barium sulfate occurring as a mineral



Recent Examples on the Web


//High-temperature minerals such as barite and celestine appeared first.
— Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, "These human-size crystals formed in especially strange ways," 22 Oct. 2019
//The oldest layer of crystals, which include the mineral barite (barium sulfate), formed at temperatures of about 100°C.
— Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, "How the world’s largest geode grew to half the size of a small bedroom," 18 Oct. 2019
//Researchers sampled barite, a mineral more than 2 billion years old, in subarctic Canada's Belcher Islands.
— Scottie Andrew, CNN, "Almost all life on Earth was wiped out 2 billion years ago, a new study says," 4 Sep. 2019
//The barite concentrate would be barged separately from Haines to a rail terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, just south of Ketchikan.
— Author: Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, "Southeast Alaska metals prospect has major potential, developers say," 14 June 2019
//From that, the mine would produce more than 1 billion pounds of zinc, 196 million pounds of copper, 18 million ounces of silver, 91,000 ounces of gold and nearly 2.9 million tonnes of barite, a common industrial mineral, according to Constantine.
— Author: Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, "Southeast Alaska metals prospect has major potential, developers say," 14 June 2019
//Excavated from what was once a barite mine 250 miles from the capital Rabat, the fossils were sent for study to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
— Olivia Yasukawa And Tom Page, CNN, "Inside the lab rewriting the origins of humanity," 25 Oct. 2017
//Hominid remains were actually stumbled upon there in the 1960s by miners looking for the crystalline mineral barite, and were studied at the time by anthropologists.
— Ben Panko, Smithsonian, "Humans Evolved 100,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought—But Mysteries Remain," 8 June 2017


First Known Use of barite

1837, in the meaning defined above



History and Etymology for barite

Greek barytēs weight, from barys



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