barbate

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On the way we had found some good quartz crystals in the baryte, about four inches high and one inch in width.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl

Ten kilogrammes of baryte, completely oxidized, were found able to take and afterward return 730 litres of gas.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

For this purpose, a preference was given to baryte, owing to its property of remaining in oxygen of a moderate temperature, and abandoning it under the influence of a heat sufficiently intense.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

Like the baryte of Cheshire, the cotton of Oddminton Island became valuable as it became an ally to fraud.

From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)