different between barium vs calcium

English

Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from baryta +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?????m/

Noun

barium (usually uncountable, plural bariums)

1. The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.
3. (medicine) barium sulfate suspension.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• barium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gillespite
• heavy spar
• witherite

References

• Barium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Anagrams

• BIMARU, Umbria

Afrikaans

Noun

barium (uncountable)

1. barium

Danish

Noun

barium

1. barium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: ba?ri?um
• Rhymes: -a?ri?m

Noun

barium n (uncountable)

1. barium

Derived terms

• bariumsulfaat

Related terms

• bariet

Finnish

(index b)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ri.um/, [?b?ri.um]
• Rhymes: -?ri.um
• Syllabification: ba?ri?um

Noun

barium

1. barium

Declension

Anagrams

• rumbia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ba.ri.um/, [?bä?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ba.ri.um/, [?b???ium]

Noun

barium n (genitive bari?); second declension

1. (New Latin) barium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• barium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• barium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• barium in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• barium in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ba???j??m]

Noun

barium n

1. (uncountable) barium
2. A part of barium

Inflection

Malay

Etymology

From English barium, from Ancient Greek ????? (barús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bariom], [bari?m], [b?ri?m]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

barium

1. barium (chemical element)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English barium, from baryta

Noun

barium n (definite singular bariumet, uncountable)

1. barium, chemical element, symbol Ba

References

• “barium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “barium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English barium, from baryta

Noun

barium n (definite singular bariumet, uncountable)

1. barium, chemical element, symbol Ba

References

• “barium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”) because it occurs in limestone.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: k?l?s?-?m, IPA^(key): /?kælsi.?m/

Noun

calcium (countable and uncountable, plural calciums)

2. The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
3. (countable) An atom of this element.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• chalk
• lime
• limestone

References

• Calcium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Further reading

Danish

Alternative forms

• kalcium

Noun

calcium

1. calcium

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from English calcium. Coined by Humphry Davy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?l.si??m/
• Hyphenation: cal?ci?um

Noun

calcium n (uncountable)

1. calcium [from early 19th c.]

Derived terms

• calciumoxide
• calciumzout

Related terms

• kalk

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.sj?m/

Noun

calcium m (uncountable)

1. calcium

Related terms

• calcaire
• calcifier
• calcique

Descendants

• Lingala: kalisu

Further reading

• “calcium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

calcium (uncountable)

1. calcium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kal.ki.um/, [?kä??ki???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kal.t??i.um/, [?k?l??t??ium]

Etymology 1

Form of calx.

Noun

calcium

1. genitive plural of calx

Etymology 2

Derived from calx, calcis (“chalk”) +? -ium (chemical element suffix).

Noun

calcium n (genitive calci?); second declension

1. (New Latin) calcium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).