Pseudomorphs of barite (BaSO4) and Cd-rich ZnS after whewellite (CaC2O4·H2O) occur within remnants of Scots pine bark tissues in the peat layer of a poor fen located near a zinc smelter in south Poland. A two-step formation of the pseudomorphs is postulated based on SEM observations: (1) complete dissolution of whewellite, possibly caused by oxalotrophic bacteria, and (2) subsequent bacterially...

A woman was evaluated for dyspnea after she inhaled barium sulfate during an upper gastrointestinal barium study that was administered by means of a percutaneous endo scopic gastrostomy tube. A plain radiograph of the chest revealed alveolar barium sulfate depositions (arrows) in the middle lobe of the right lung and in the lower lobes and the posterior aspects of the upper lobes of both lungs ...

Abstract Mid-ocean ridge (MOR) hydrothermal vent fluids are enriched with dissolved barium, but due to barite (BaSO4) precipitation during mixing between Ba-bearing and SO4-bearing seawater, the magnitude of Ba input ocean remains uncertain. Deep-ocean isotopes show evidence for non-conservative behavior, which might be explained by isotopically heavy Ba. In this study we present first isotope ...

Oxygen isotopes in marine sulfate (delta18O(SO4)) measured in marine barite show variability over the past 10 million years, including a 5 per mil decrease during the Plio-Pleistocene, with near-constant values during the Miocene that are slightly enriched over the modern ocean. A numerical model suggests that sea level fluctuations during Plio-Pleistocene glacial cycles affected the sulfur cyc...

The key aspect of minimizing the descent of quality and productivity in papermaking is to identify the origins of scale and to realize the appropriate treatment. Scale derived from calcium, silicon and aluminium is most commonly reckoned and easily collected. In the present study, we focus our attention on another serious situation of such adherent scale as barium sulfate, of which boil-out tre...

the komshecheh barite-fluorite deposit is the product of epigenetic hydrothermal mineralizationin dolomitized limestone of middle triassic age. the deposit is structurally and lithologically controlled andoccurs predominantly as bedded stratabound replacement sheets, although the veins and solution-collapsebreccias constitute important modes of occurrence. brecciation, dolomitization, silicific...

The use of polyvinyl alcohol polymer as a binder for barium sulfate does not allow the intrinsically high reflectance of barium sulfate in the 200-300-nm range to be optimally employed. In an effort to better utilize this property, totally inorganic coating systems are described. Potassium sulfate turns out to be the preferred binder for reflectance enhancement. Compositions, formulating proced...