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barium
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[ noun ] (chemistry) a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
Synonyms Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)In Chicago , some time ago , Mr._H. , age 27 , a diabetic since he was six , stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' - a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent - sold by the Vrilium_Company of Chicago for $ 306 as a cure-all . Related terms |
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