Chem. [mod. f. Gr. βαρύς heavy (in reference to its great weight), partly assimilated to names of minerals in -ITES, Gr. -ῑτης (whence some early chemists preferred barites: see prec.). Cf. mod. F. baryte, and trachyte.]

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  † 1.  = BARYTA. (Occas. attrib.) Obs.

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1791.  Hamilton, Berthollet’s Dyeing, I. I. I. v. 86. Solutions of lime … [and] barytes, are not decomposed.

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1802.  Chevenix, in Phil. Trans., XCII. 341. No precipitate took place from a mixture of barytes-water and strontia-water.

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1854.  F. Bakewell, Geol., 32. A lining of sulphate of barytes.

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  2.  Native sulphate of barium, heavy spar, BARITE.

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1789.  A. Crawford, in Med. Comm., II. 301. The medicinal properties of the Muriated Barytes.

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1822.  Imison, Sc. & Art, II. 90. Barytes is used as a white paint, under the name of permanent white.

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1878.  Lawrence, Cotta’s Rocks Class., 41. Barytes seldom occurs as an independent rock.

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