Definition of Arsenate

1. Noun. A salt or ester of arsenic acid.

Generic synonyms: Salt

Definition of Arsenate

1. n. A salt of arsenic acid.

Definition of Arsenate

1. Noun. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of arsenic acid. ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) The anion AsO43-. ¹

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Definition of Arsenate

1. a chemical salt [n -S]

Medical Definition of Arsenate

1. A salt of arsenic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Arsenate

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

1. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1904)
"If you get an impure sample oí arsenate of soda, one that ia adulterated with salt, you are liable to have an excess of arsenic, and your foliage will be ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"They also hold that when lead acetate is used a product is obtained at times which is principally lead hydrogen arsenate. They corroborate Smith's* ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"On heating this salt to redness, bright incandescence takes place, but no arsenious oxide is giren off. Iron-cinder is a native ferric arsenate containing ..."

4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Red silver arsenate and yellow silver arsenite are precipitated from neutral solutions by ... An arsenate gives a yellow precipitate with ammonium ..."

5. Arsenic by Assembly Of Life Sciences, National Academies Press, Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1977)
"Lead arsenate is a stomach poison. with very little contact activity when used on ... Calcium arsenate is more effective than lead arsenate in combating the ..."

6. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"A standard formula for arsenate of lead is: PER BARREL PER GALLON arsenate of l«ad ... arsenate of Lime.—This substance has come into use since about 1914, ..."

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