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Definition of Citrate
1. Noun. A salt or ester of citric acid.
2. Verb. Cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid.
Definition of Citrate
1. n. A salt of citric acid.
Definition of Citrate
1. Noun. (organic compound) Any salt or ester of citric acid. ¹
2. Verb. To cause to form citrate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Citrate
1. a salt of citric acid [n -S] : CITRATED [adj]
Medical Definition of Citrate
1. A salt or ester of citric acid; used as anticoagulants because they bind calcium ions. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Citrate
Literary usage of Citrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"citrate OF IRON. The citrate of iron appears to have been first introduced to the
... If to the acid citrate of iron in solution, prepared according to the ..."
2. The Analyst (1879)
"The citrate of lime is now allowed to settle ; the supernatant liquor, if found
free from citric acid, is run off ; and for this purpose two holes may be ..."
3. The Analyst by Society of Public Analysts (Great Britain). (1880)
"The citrate of lime is now allowed to settle; the supernatant liquor, if found
free from citric acid, is run off; and for this purpose two holes may be made ..."
4. American Druggist (1893)
"Phosphate of sodium is dissolved in a solution of ferric citrate and the solution
... The scales of citrate of iron are obtained by simply evaporating the ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1854)
"Manufacture of Citric Acid, citrate of Lime, citrate of Baryta, ice.—In the
ordinary method of manufacturing citric acid, lime-juice is saturated with chalk ..."
6. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1848)
"Ammonia forms with mercurous citrate suspended in water, a black powder, ...
Mercuric citrate. — The solution of mercuric oxide in boiling citric acid ..."
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