atomic number 56

1. 1.

   a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

   SynonymsbariumBa

   Broadermetallic element

   Narrowerbaryta

Questions about atomic number 56

What does atomic number 56 mean?

atomic number 56 means "a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite".

What is another word for atomic number 56?

Close synonyms include barium, Ba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atomic number 56 a common word?

atomic number 56 is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.