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Definition of Oxalates
1. oxalate [v] - See also: oxalate
Medical Definition of Oxalates
1. Ethanedioic acids. Salts of oxalic acid. The acid occurs in many plants and vegetables and is produced in the body by metabolism of glyoxylic acid or ascorbic acid. Ingestion of a diet rich in oxalates or the existence of primary hyperoxaluria (a genetic disorder of glycine metabolism) may lead to the formation of calcium oxalate kidney calculi. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxalates
Literary usage of Oxalates
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1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The oxalates have some toxicologie importance but no therapeutic interest. ...
oxalates are toxic to all life except to a few lower fungi which do not ..."
2. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"PROPERTIES OF oxalates. The soluble salts formed by the union of oxalic ...
Most of the alcaline oxalates are capable of combining with an excess of acid. ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"THE CARRYING DOWN OF SOLUBLE oxalates BY oxalates OF THE RARE EARTHS. ...
Other rare earth oxalates were found to exhibit a like tendency to occlude ..."
4. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"oxalates are very poisonous to all forms of animal life and to plants containing
chlorophyll, but are harmless to the moulds, bacteria and some algse. ..."
5. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in Qualitative Work with Data for by Albert Benjamin Prescott, Otis Coe Johnson (1916)
"In this manner the above oxalates may be made, except alkali, magnesium, chromic,
ferric, aluminum and stannic oxalates, which are not precipitated. ..."
6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1894)
"In all work with the rare earths, oxalates from their insolubility play a very
... The oxalates may also be converted into chlorides by mixing them ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1860)
"oxalates.—Until lately oxalic acid was regarded as monobasic ; but Gerhardt ...
The oxalates of magnesia, cadmium, and manganese are also white am nearly ..."
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