Talk:Barium carbonate

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Should the Witherite page be merged with Barium carbonate? 128.54.160.135 (talk) 04:23, 7 June 2011 (UTC) Is it really soluble in ethanol? It should be checked! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.48.219.27 (talk) 17:24, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I agree that it should. Im a chemisty student and cannot see why the Witherite should have a special status. If anyone is interested in expanding the article, the Nanobacterium page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobacterium) links to the Whiterite page by following: The growth of such "biomorphic" inorganic precipitates was studied in detail in a 2009 Science paper, which showed that unusual crystal growth mechanisms can produce witherite precipitates from barium chloride and silica solutions that closely resemble primitive organisms. (García-Ruiz JM, Melero-García E, Hyde ST (January 2009). "Morphogenesis of self-assembled nanocrystalline materials of barium carbonate and silica". Science 323 (5912): 362–5. Bibcode 2009Sci...323..362G. doi:10.1126/science.1165349. PMID 19150841.) OxygenBlue (talk) 20:07, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the solubility in EtOH, the Handbook of physis and chemistry does not state EtHO under "qualitative solubility". I guess that means that it isn't soluble. Is that enough of a reference to remove the "ethanol" from the list of Solubility? OxygenBlue (talk) 20:15, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

The Melting Point of BaCO3 is listed on the English page as 811°C - a value spread over much of internet. On other language pages it is much higher, > 1400°C, which is probably correct. TrulsNorby (talk) 13:49, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

At the end, shouldn't it read that it avoids efflorescence? SA mtm (talk) 10:54, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

isn't he an actor

i think this is an actor's name — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:56A:F390:2A00:D29:834B:AACF:3E32 (talk) 21:31, 19 May 2020 (UTC)