barytes

Definitions

Examples

• At this locality, the ore is accompanied by the sulphate of barytes, and is sometimes crystallized in cubes or octohedrons.

• Barytes scratches easily with the knife, and from its great specific gravity is often called heavy-spar.

• Magnesia dissolved in much smaller quantity, and barytes seemed to decompose the sugar entirely.

• The "crested" or "cock's comb" barytes occurs as rounded aggregations of thin lamellar crystals.

• Primed and second coated with a green paint containing zinc oxide and barytes, ground in an oil having a low saponification value.