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Barium carbonate is the inorganic compound with the formula BaCO 3. Like most alkaline earth metal carbonates, it is a white salt that is poorly soluble in water. It occurs as the mineral known as witherite. In a commercial sense, it is one of the most important barium compounds. [5]
Barytocalcite is an anhydrous barium calcium carbonate mineral with the chemical formula Ba Ca(C O 3) 2. It is trimorphous with alstonite and paralstonite, that is to say the three minerals have the same formula but different structures. [3] Baryte and quartz pseudomorphs after barytocalcite have been observed. [4]
The following chart shows the solubility of various ionic compounds in water at 1 atm pressure and room temperature (approx. 25 °C, 298.15 K). "Soluble" means the ionic compound doesn't precipitate, while "slightly soluble" and "insoluble" mean that a solid will precipitate; "slightly soluble" compounds like calcium sulfate may require heat to precipitate.
Barium acetate is generally produced by the reaction of acetic acid with barium carbonate: [2] BaCO 3 + 2 CH 3 COOH → (CH 3 COO) 2 Ba + CO 2 + H 2 O. The reaction is performed in solution and the barium acetate crystalizes out at temperatures above 41 °C. Between 25 and 40 °C, the monohydrate version crystalizes. Alternatively, barium ...
The process worked only for a few cycles and then became inefficient. Two students of Boussingault, Quentin and Arthur Leon Brin, discovered that traces of carbon dioxide formed barium carbonate. Removing the carbon dioxide with sodium hydroxide solved this problem. In 1884 they opened a factory producing oxygen by their improved process.
Carbonates (e.g. sodium, calcium, or barium carbonate) or other mildly alkaline materials can be added to scavenge such acids. Boric acid can be used to inhibit the sensitivity of aluminium to moisture, and to stabilize mixtures of metals with nitrates (which can otherwise form amides which react exothermically with metals and can cause ...
Barium carbonate is often added to maintain anhydrous and acid-free conditions. In the above reaction, while a mixture of isomeric allylic bromide products are possible, only one is created due to the greater stability of the 4-position radical over the methyl-centered radical.
Witherite is a barium carbonate mineral, Ba C O 3, in the aragonite group. [2] Witherite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and virtually always is twinned. [2] The mineral is colorless, milky-white, grey, pale-yellow, green, to pale-brown. The specific gravity is 4.3, which is high for a translucent mineral. [2]