heavy-spar
1Heavy spar — Heav y spar (Min.) Native barium sulphate or barite, so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non metallic minerals. [1913 Webster] …
2heavy spar — n. BARITE …
3heavy spar — Barytes Ba*ry tes, n. [Gr. bary s heavy: cf. Gr. bary ths heaviness, F. baryte.] (Min.) Barium sulphate, generally called {heavy spar} or {barite}. See {Barite}. [1913 Webster] …
4heavy spar — Permanent Per ma*nent, a. [L. permanens, entis, p. pr. of permanere to stay or remain to the end, to last; per + manere to remain: cf. F. permanent. See {Per }, and {Mansion}.] Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys… …
5heavy spar — Barite Ba rite, n. (Min.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific… …
6heavy spar — Mineral. barite. [1780 90] * * * …
7heavy-spar — n. Sulphate of baryta (native) …
8heavy spar — /hɛvi ˈspa/ (say hevee spah) noun → barytes …
9heavy spar — noun a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium • Syn: ↑barite, ↑barytes, ↑barium sulphate • Hypernyms: ↑mineral • Substance Meronyms: ↑barium, ↑Ba, ↑ …
10Spar (mineralogy) — Spar is a term that is used to refer to a category of crystals that have readily discernible faces. Crystallized, earthy, and some metallic, a spar will easily break into rhomboidal, cubical, or laminated fragments with polished surfaces, but… …
