How to Use barium in a Sentence

barium

noun
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  • The teal stars are made of a barium nitrate mixture and the red stars are a blend of strontium salts.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
  • Residents said there was an old barium mine and many gold mines in the area.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
  • To make the first one, lanthanum, start with a barium atom and add one proton and one electron.
    — Stanley Merzman, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2018
  • On Earth, barium appears in the night skies as a vibrant green color when fireworks are set off.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The teeth and other bones of orangutans that drink mothers’ milk contain the element barium.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
  • And measurements of barium, titanium, and iron show that the mass of growing life was much higher, as well.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
  • In addition, clusters of four ions (two ytterbium, two barium) can be split in half, or two clusters of two ions can be merged.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Payre 336's tooth enamel didn't show any clear patterns of barium levels.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Watching the dance of the barium clouds could provide information about how charged particles move in the ionosphere.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • Watching the dance of the barium clouds could provide information about how charged particles move in the ionosphere.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
  • If one of those pieces were barium, Meitner mused, the other would have to be another light element called krypton.
    — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Green comes from the compound barium chloride, blue from copper chloride.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
  • This makes elements such as strontium, barium and lead.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • But a scatter diagram presented in the lawsuit shows its ratios of barium to nickel and strontium to zinc fall far outside the norms for Kona.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Among the traces of metals found were antimony, arsenic, barium, copper, iron and lead.
    — Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 29 June 2017
  • For those with clear skies, the rocket will release barium vapor that will form two green and violet clouds that could be visible for about 30 seconds, the NASA statement said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
  • As if the asbestos findings aren't scary enough, the lab also found the heavy metals barium, chromium, selenium and lead in Just Shine Shimmer Powder.
    — Marci Robin, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Nursing often leaves higher levels of barium in a child's tooth enamel.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The tape is made up of yttrium barium copper oxide deposited on a steel substrate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • For instance, in the book, Tom Wolfe describes everything from electric shocks to barium enemas.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Among the atoms resulting from neutron bombardment were much smaller atoms like barium, which has an atomic number of 56.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 11 June 2018
  • But researchers can compare the level of antimony with the the level of barium and lead to figure out whether an individual pulled the trigger.
    — Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2007
  • But that process lasted until the child was around 2.5 years old, when the barium signature in their tooth enamel finally fades out altogether.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Sobolev says that these minerals, which include chlorine, lead, and barium, hint towards a subterranean ocean comparable in mass to all the present-day oceans combined.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Calcium, for instance, will glow orange, barium green, and strontium red.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • Ionized by sunlight, the barium would create a ring of moving plasma that emits radio waves: essentially a space version of a magnetron, the gadget used in microwave ovens.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Whoever produced these stars has mastered the barium chlorate concoction that gives fireworks the toxic-green sheen of Ghostbusters’ Slimer.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
  • The rocket will release barium vapor that will form two green and violet clouds that could be visible for about 30 seconds, NASA previously said in a statement.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2021
  • Three chemicals will interact to form the color tracers — barium, strontium and cupric-oxide.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • Other mushrooms from Yunnan had normal levels of barium, too.
    — Jennifer Abbasi, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2013

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