Definition of "barytes" [ba•ry•tes]

• Variant of barite. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The mineral barite is a heavy white sulphate of barium, frequently called "barytes" or "heavy spar.""
• "In Saturday's issue of The Times David Aaronovitch wrote: I am as captivated by the abandoned cottages and workings of the 18th-century barytes miners beside the Shropshire Stiperstones as I am by the 2,000-year-old white tombs of Turkish Lycia."
• "And they did not mine barytes much here until the 20th century."