Barium hydroxide is mixed with many solutions of other metal salts. Reactions of barium hydroxide with ammonium salts are strongly endothermic. The reaction of barium hydroxide octahydrate with ammonium chloride or ammonium thiocyanate is often used as a classroom chemistry demonstration, producing temperatures cold enough to freeze water and enough water to dissolve the resulting mixture. Barium hydroxide presents the same hazards as other strong bases and as other water-soluble barium compounds: it is corrosive and toxic. Barium hydroxide Barium hydroxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula Ba(OH)(HO). The monohydrate (x =1), known as baryta or baryta-water, is one of
Stieff Silver silverware production was moved to Providence RI while sterling silver hollow ware and pewter would remain at the Stieff factory. Manufacturing ceased in 1999 in Baltimore, as operations were consolidated at a Lenox plant in Smithfield RI and later to New Jersey. Today the name survives as a brand of Lifetime Brands Inc., Lifetime bought Kirk-Stieff and other silver brands from Lenox in July 2007. Sale price was 8.775 million dollars (US Dollars) The silver is now made in Puerto Rico, but only as Sterling Flatware (unchased). Of the Stieff patterns, only the pattern Stieff Rose is still made, and