Definition of Acetates

1. Noun. (plural of acetate) ¹

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Definition of Acetates

1. acetate [n] - See also: acetate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetates

acetanilids
acetanisole
acetarious
acetarsol
acetarsone
acetary
acetate
acetate-CoA ligase
acetate-succinate CoA-transferase
acetate disk
acetate kinase
acetate rayon
acetate replacement factor
acetate thiokinase
acetated
acetates (current term)
acetazolamides
acetenyl
acetic
acetic acid
acetic alcohol
acetic aldehyde
acetic amide
acetic anhydride
acetic fermentation
acetic phosphoric anhydride
acetic solution
aceticoceptor
acetification

Literary usage of Acetates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp (1916)
"acetates. — Aluminum acetate in the pure state is not known, but a solution ... Several basic aluminum acetates are made by adding sodium carbonate to the ..."

2. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"The available alkali of the blood is increased by the acetates as by the ... The acetates seem almost devoid of specific action—they act only as salts by ..."

3. Chemistry by William Thomas Brande, Alfred Swaine Taylor (1863)
"They are decomposed by a red heat, some of them giving off the acid and leaving the metal, such as the acetates of copper and of silver ; some give off ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messenger. Comey (1896)
"Heating hastens the precipitation by chlorides, nitrates, and sulphates, but delays that hy acetates. KOH + Aq docs not precipitate. ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"All the acetates are decomposed by heat, but the decomposition takes place at very ... The acetates formed by the easily reducible metallic oxides, ..."

6. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"It also forms basic salts, which may be regarded as compounds of the normal acetates with oxides. The normal acetates all dissolve in water, ..."

7. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"acetates Potassium and sodium acetates are used mainly as alkaline diuretics. PREPARATIONS acetates Acidum ..."

8. A General Treatise on the Manufacture of Vinegar: Theoretical and Practical by Hippolyte Dussauce (1871)
"THE acetates are compounds formed of acetic acid, with metallic oxides or ... The acetates of molybdenum are insoluble; those of sub- oxide of mercury and ..."

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