Period 6 element years and is used in medical applications, industrial gauges, and hydrology. Although the element is only mildly toxic, it is a hazardous material as a metal and its radioisotopes present a high health risk in case of radioactivity releases. Barium is a chemical element with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56. It is the fifth element in Group 2, a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal. Barium is never found in nature in its pure form due to its reactivity with air. Its oxide is historically known as baryta but it reacts with water and carbon dioxide and is
Pure subgroup Pure subgroup In mathematics, especially in the area of algebra studying the theory of abelian groups, a pure subgroup is a generalization of direct summand. It has found many uses in abelian group theory and related areas. A subgroup formula_1 of a (typically abelian) group formula_2 is said to be pure if whenever an element of formula_1 has an formula_4 root in formula_2, it necessarily has an formula_4 root in formula_1. Formally, formula_8 is solvable in formula_2 formula_10 is solvable in formula_1. Pure subgroups are also called isolated subgroups or serving subgroups and were first investigated in Prüfer's 1923 paper