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Chemical data
- Formula
- CBaO3
- Molecular weight
- 197.34 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- barium(2+) carbonate
- SMILES
- C(=O)([O-])[O-].[Ba+2]
- InChIKey
- AYJRCSIUFZENHW-UHFFFAOYSA-L
- Polar surface area
- 63.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 3
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- carbon
- Mass
- 197.89
- Image
- Uhličitan barnatý.JPG
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- standard enthalpy of formation
- -1211
- Commons category
- Barium carbonate
- decomposition point
- 1400
- canonical SMILES
- C(=O)([O-])[O-].[Ba+2]
- chemical formula
- CBaO₃
- refractive index
- 1.6
- density
- 4.286
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- solubility
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
Barium carbonate is the inorganic compound with the formula BaCO3. Like most alkaline earth metal carbonates, it is a white salt that is poorly soluble in water. It occurs as the mineral known as witherite. In a commercial sense, it is one of the most important barium compounds.
Preparation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “barium carbonate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.