How to Use barium in a Sentence

barium

noun
  • Residents said there was an old barium mine and many gold mines in the area.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The teal stars are made of a barium nitrate mixture and the red stars are a blend of strontium salts.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
  • To make the first one, lanthanum, start with a barium atom and add one proton and one electron.
    — Stanley Merzman, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2018
  • On Earth, barium appears in the night skies as a vibrant green color when fireworks are set off.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Green comes from the compound barium chloride, blue from copper chloride.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
  • Their analysis revealed that all three stars hold very low abundances of strontium and barium.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
  • Nursing often leaves higher levels of barium in a child's tooth enamel.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Payre 336's tooth enamel didn't show any clear patterns of barium levels.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2018
  • This system uses an isotope of ytterbium for qubits and barium ions for cooling.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The teeth and other bones of orangutans that drink mothers’ milk contain the element barium.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
  • In addition, clusters of four ions (two ytterbium, two barium) can be split in half, or two clusters of two ions can be merged.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
  • And measurements of barium, titanium, and iron show that the mass of growing life was much higher, as well.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
  • The tape is made up of yttrium barium copper oxide deposited on a steel substrate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • Among the traces of metals found were antimony, arsenic, barium, copper, iron and lead.
    — Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 29 June 2017
  • Calcium, for instance, will glow orange, barium green, and strontium red.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • If one of those pieces were barium, Meitner mused, the other would have to be another light element called krypton.
    — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Other mushrooms from Yunnan had normal levels of barium, too.
    — Jennifer Abbasi, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2013
  • The doctors scheduled me for a barium swallow test, also known as an esophagram, to measure how my esophagus was draining.
    — Rachel S. Hunt, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • Their sample, made from barium, lead, bismuth and oxygen, was fully three-dimensional.
    — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • Three chemicals will interact to form the color tracers — barium, strontium and cupric-oxide.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • Among the atoms resulting from neutron bombardment were much smaller atoms like barium, which has an atomic number of 56.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 11 June 2018
  • In one study, Himalayan pink salt contained higher levels of aluminum, barium, and silicon than table salt.
    — Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 18 Feb. 2025
  • But a scatter diagram presented in the lawsuit shows its ratios of barium to nickel and strontium to zinc fall far outside the norms for Kona.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Tests determined that the residue contained metals such as aluminum, barium, chromium, nickel, vanadium and zinc.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • So the company decided to change elements, switching to barium ions instead.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2022
  • For instance, in the book, Tom Wolfe describes everything from electric shocks to barium enemas.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Barium is obtained chiefly from the mineral barite consisting of barium-sulfate.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 4 July 2021
  • This was when the universe was mostly made of helium and hydrogen and did not have large amounts of other chemical elements like barium and strontium.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
  • But researchers can compare the level of antimony with the the level of barium and lead to figure out whether an individual pulled the trigger.
    — Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2007
  • Sobolev says that these minerals, which include chlorine, lead, and barium, hint towards a subterranean ocean comparable in mass to all the present-day oceans combined.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019

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