barium sulfate

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   a white insoluble radiopaque powder used as a pigment

   Synonymsbarium sulphateblanc fixe

   Broadersulfate

Questions about barium sulfate

What does barium sulfate mean?

barium sulfate means "a white insoluble radiopaque powder used as a pigment".

What is another word for barium sulfate?

Close synonyms include barium sulphate, blanc fixe. 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 sulfate a common word?

barium sulfate 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.