barium peroxide

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   a white toxic powder obtained by heating barium oxide in air

   Synonymsbarium dioxide

   Broaderbaryta

Questions about barium peroxide

What does barium peroxide mean?

barium peroxide means "a white toxic powder obtained by heating barium oxide in air".

What is another word for barium peroxide?

Close synonyms include barium dioxide. 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 barium peroxide a common word?

barium peroxide 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.