[citation needed] When heated in air, barium acetate decomposes to the carbonate.

[citation needed] Barium acetate is used as a mordant for printing textile fabrics, for drying paints and varnishes and in lubricating oil.

[citation needed] Barium acetate was featured in a 2001 episode of the television series Forensic Files, recounting the 1993 murder of a man by his teenage daughter (Marie Robards), though the episode and other crime documentary shows examining the Robards case excluded mention of the name of the chemical.

Barium acetate was featured in a 2014 episode of the crime documentary series Redrum.

Barium acetate was named as the choice poison of a teen's murder of her father in an episode of Deadly Women.