barium sulphate

Questions about barium sulphate

What does barium sulphate mean?

barium sulphate means "a white insoluble radiopaque powder used as a pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for barium sulphate?

Close synonyms include barium sulfate, blanc fixe, heavy spar, barite, barytes. 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 sulphate a common word?

barium sulphate 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.