Coffee creamer is a base because if you eat it raw then it will soak up the acid in your stomach.
Barium has a 2+ charge as it is in group 2 in the periodic table and so it has two electrons in its outer shell and chloride has a -1 charge on its chloride ion. So we will need two of the chloride ions as we have a 2+ charge to match the amount of charge on one barium ion- forming barium ion
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The rate of growth is faster in the (10 - 14) age group and slows down after the age of 14. After the age of 16 the growth is the slowest