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    They are beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra). The elements have very similar properties: they are...
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  • lithium through caesium, and alkaline earth metals, magnesium through barium. Some water-reactive substances are also pyrophoric, like organometallics...
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    symptoms at all. Clinical investigations include X-rays when swallowing barium sulfate, endoscopy, and CT scans. Surgically, the esophagus is difficult...
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  • Hermann; Wagner, Heinz; Winkler, Jochen; Wolf, Hans Uwe (15 July 2007). "Barium and Barium Compounds". In Elvers, Barbara; et al. (eds.). Ullmann's Encyclopedia...
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    matter. Separating radium from the barium in the ore proved very difficult. It took three years for them to produce a tenth of a gram of radium chloride, and...
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    periodic trends. For example, unbinilium is expected to be less reactive than barium and radium and be closer in behavior to strontium, and while it should show...
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    than wearing lead aprons. The lead-free aprons contain tin, antimony and barium, which have the property of producing intense radiation (X-ray fluorescence...
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    Radium, however, was more elusive; it is closely related chemically to barium, and pitchblende contains both elements. By 1898 the Curies had obtained...
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    generic medication in the United States since 2004. In 2021, it was the tenth most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than...
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    sulfate emit a deep green light, a much deeper green than the flame test for barium. Copper sulfate is employed at a limited level in organic synthesis. The...
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    polymers, reducing the energy barriers for hole injection. Metals such as barium and calcium are often used for the cathode as they have low work functions...
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    only 10% to 30% of the solar abundance for most other major elements with barium and scandium below 10%. The unusually low metallicity of Vega makes it a...
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    (30 mi), but the total mass of the Kuiper belt is thought to be only a tenth or even a hundredth the mass of Earth. Many Kuiper belt objects have satellites...
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    Latin): chaux (calcium oxide), magnésie (magnesia, magnesium oxide), baryte (barium sulfate), alumine (alumina, aluminium oxide), and silice (silica, silicon...
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    waters. Coal contains trace levels of trace elements (such as arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, thallium, selenium, molybdenum and...
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    gypsum (calcium sulfate), alunite (potassium aluminium sulfate), and barite (barium sulfate). On Earth, just as upon Jupiter's moon Io, elemental sulfur occurs...
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    can also be caused by inhaling other dusts including aluminum, antimony, barium, graphite, iron, kaolin, mica, and talc. In 2013, BLD resulted in 25,000...
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    Carbon S CN CH White dwarf Chemically peculiar Am Ap/Bp CEMP HgMn He-weak Barium Lambda Boötis Lead Technetium Be Shell B[e] Helium Extreme Blue straggler...
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    original on 4 March 2016. Page 970 (46th page of article) first, ninth, and tenth lines (a) Willstatter R (1903). "Synthese der Ecgoninsäure" [Synthesis of...
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    "significantly higher" levels of carcinogenic "heavy metals" such as bismuth and barium. After Cafritz' death, Raniere and his co-conspirators used her identity...
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     21. ISBN 978-0-07-773093-2. Retrieved 19 June 2016. Subcommittee on the Tenth Edition of the Recommended Dietary Allowances, Food and Nutrition Board...
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    in humans. There are diagnostic tools mostly involving the ingestion of barium sulphate to investigate disorders of the GI tract. These are known as upper...
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  • are referred to as SCN1A through SCN5A, then SCN8A through SCN11A. The "tenth member", Nax, does not act in a voltage-gated way. It has a loosely similar...
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    rockwool, garnet, gabbro, diorite, vermiculite, attapulgite, calcium, barium, rare earth elements, scandium, yttrium and zeolite, and had the capacity...
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  • they quickly disproved his assertion; one of the elements produced was barium, which, with 56 protons, was nowhere near the 92 protons the nucleus started...
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    have been taken with highly fluctuating measurements, but the elevated barium concentrations correlate with the suspended sediment measurements and are...
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  • Inorganic fillers, i.e. cordierite particles (e.g. Mg2Al3 [AlSi5O18]) or barium silicate, are added to the melted glass paste to influence properties, i...
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    inventor of dynamite and benefactor of science. A radioactive metal, it is the tenth transuranic element and is the penultimate member of the actinide series...
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    color for fireworks: copper for blue, strontium or lithium for red, and barium compounds for bright green or white. When fireworks are set off in the air...
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    Matthews JB, Pollock RE, Billiar TR (2014). Schwartz's principles of surgery (Tenth ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-0-07-179674-3. Sanabria A, Dominguez...
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