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# barium

«barium» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soft, silvery chemical element, a metal, with the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (barium, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A soft, silvery chemical element, a metal, with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#m1)

2) A white drink with a barium compound that patients swallow so their stomach shows up on an X-ray (a barium meal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, barium is in the periodic table and is used in fireworks to make green colours. In hospitals, doctors use a barium meal or swallow to see the gut on X-rays.

### examples

- Barium makes fireworks glow green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#x1)
- The symbol for barium is Ba. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#x2)
- My granddad had to drink barium before his X-ray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#x3)
- Barium is a metal in the periodic table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#x4)
- Pure barium reacts with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#x5)
- Barium shows up white on an X-ray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Symbol Ba (capital B, small a). Many barium compounds are poisonous, but the one used in hospitals is safe because it does not dissolve.

### In the corpora

- [Every kind of metal gives back its own colour: strontium red, barium green, sodium yellow, copper blue.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/3/)
- [The colours of fireworks come from different metals: strontium gives red, barium green, sodium yellow and copper blue.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barium» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barium/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.