barium carbonate

noun

: a water-insoluble toxic salt BaCO₃ occurring in nature as witherite, made artificially by precipitation as a white powder, and used chiefly in making other barium compounds, in removing sulfates from aqueous solutions, in ceramics as a flux, and in optical glass

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