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Baralime (also sometimes spelled 'baralyme') is a mixture of barium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide with a color indicator mixed in. It absorbs carbon dixoide. We anesthesiologists use it in the anesthesia machine to suck up the CO2 from exhaled air in a closed-circuit anesthesia machine.

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