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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a term proposed by Wadsworth (1802) for rocks, formed by chemical precipitation, composed mainly of barite and celestite: it refers to the high specific gravity of these substances.
  • noun Barium carbonate. See witherite.

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