Word: barium
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Still experimenting, Wedgwood is now concentrating mainly on a new product that he calls Jasper Ware because it is almost as shiny as jasper. Wedgwood was the first to discover that clay containing barium compounds can be more highly polished than any other and can be beautifully colored by various metallic oxides. To exploit the classical revival started by the recent excavations in Pompeii, Wedgwood is embossing his Jasper Ware with bas-relief of Greek and Roman figures...
Among his fellow scientists, Lst is well known for his experiments involving the firing of rockets laden with canisters of barium high into the atmosphere. Once released, the barium particles formed into ionized clouds that were used to study the movements of winds in the upper atmosphere and the shape of the earth's magnetic field. To the German public, Lüst is even better known for his lucid scientific commentaries over television during Apollo moon shots. That combination of talents may be highly productive. By using his influence with his fellow scientists as well...
...Vonnegut, liberal quantities of whimsy are poured through the plot like so many doses of barium. The viewer is supposed to have a sense of the spiritual crisis brought on by Billy's experience in the Dresden bombing. Having found solace with Montana, he announces, "If we're going to survive, it's necessary to concentrate on the good moments and forget the bad." Shortly afterward, his baby is born, the universe rejoices, the firmament lights up with fireworks. As a resolution of plot and a reconciliation of historical horror, this amounts to a cosmic lollipop...
...repeatedly bombarded the element uranium with neutrons in an effort to create new man-made radioactive isotopes. According to the theories of the time, the neutrons should have combined with the nucleus of the uranium atoms to produce heavier, unstable isotopes. Yet he kept finding lighter atoms of barium. Gradually, the inexplicable presence of the barium, which is only about half the weight of uranium, persuaded Hahn that he had done what had always been considered impossible: he had split the atom...
...unfading ceramic that also comes in green, lavender, yellow and maroon. Josiah fired more than 10,000 experiments in his kilns. What he was after was a material that could be impregnated with color throughout, rather than simply receive a surface glaze. And in cauk, a form of barium sulphate, Josiah found what he wanted. Jasper ware grew so popular that the English used it for shoebuckles, chessmen, perfume vials, bell pulls, architectural ornaments, even a mortar and pestle. Most famous of all Josiah's jasper ware was his limited edition of the Portland vase, after a Greek vase...