Barium minerals are dense (e.g., BaSO 4, 4.5 grams per cubic centimetre; BaO, 5.7 grams per cubic centimetre), a property that was the source of many of their names and of the name of the element itself (from the Greek barys, "heavy").Ironically, metallic barium is comparatively light, only 30 percent denser than aluminum.Its cosmic abundance is …Web