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- Baryta - n. - An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.
- Neurine - n. - A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide.
- Strontia - n. - An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.
- Bromlife - n. - A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.