Barium Sulfate

"Barium Sulfate" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A compound used as an x-ray contrast medium that occurs in nature as the mineral barite. It is also used in various manufacturing applications and mixed into heavy concrete to serve as a radiation shield.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Barium Sulfate" by people in this website by year, and whether "Barium Sulfate" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1994 and 1998 and 2010 and 2016 and 2020
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