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Definition of Borates
1. borate [v] - See also: borate
Medical Definition of Borates
1. Inorganic or organic salts and esters of boric acid. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Borates
Literary usage of Borates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Both neutral and acid borates of alkali-metal form with manganous salts, ...
Soluble borates, whether neutral or acid, give with mercuric chloride, ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"borates. As the boracic is a feeble acid, it neutralizes alkalies imperfectly ;
and hence the borates of soda, potassa, and ammonia have always an alkaline ..."
3. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"The borates of magnesia loose a portion of boracic acid, together with water of
... Therefore all borates are not decomposed by water vapour, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"Physical Characters of the Sodium borates, etc. " Some Physical Characters of
the Sodium borates, with a New and Rapid Method for the Determination of ..."
5. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"PROPERTIES OF borates. borates are vitrifiable by heat, but they are not altered by
... METHODS OF OBTAINING borates. Borate of soda, potash, or ammonia, ..."
6. Chemistry by William Thomas Brande, Alfred Swaine Taylor (1863)
"borates.—1. The alkaline borates are soluble in water, and have an alkaline reaction.
2. When the solution is concentrated by evaporation, if necessary, ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"borates.—The alkaline borates alone are soluble ; all the others are insoluble.
... Charcoal acts with difficulty on the borates; only a few of which are ..."
8. A Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis: Or, The Quantitative by Francis Sutton (1890)
"Since borates are now much used as preservative agents, a method which may be relied
... The method is therefore very fairly accurate for soluble borates. ..."
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