Min. Obs. [f. BAR-YTES + SELENITE; see quot.] Native sulphate of barium; now called BARITE or BARYTES.
1786. Phil. Trans., LXXVI. 130. The solution of acetous baro-selinite (that is, ponderous earth dissolved in distilled vinegar).
1811. Pinkerton, Petral., II. 138. Mr. Kirwan calls this kind of barytes, baroselenite; because it resembles selenite, or gypsum crystallised in plates.
