Definition of Pectate

1. n. A salt of pectic acid.

Definition of Pectate

1. Noun. (chemistry) A salt of pectic acid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pectate

1. a chemical salt [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pectate

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pectate

peckish
peckishly
peckled
pecks
pecksniffian
pecky
pecopteris
pecora
pecoraite
pecorini
pecorino
pecorinos
pecs
pectase
pectases
pectate (current term)
pectates
pecten analis
pecten band
pectenitis
pectenosis
pectenotoxin
pectenotoxins
pectens
pectic acid
pectic acids

Literary usage of Pectate

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

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"The precipitate formed by sulphate of copper in ammoniacal pectate of ammonia, ... Neutral pectate of silver is obtained by precipitating pectate of ammonia ..."

2. First Outlines of a Dictionary of Solubilities of Chemical Substances by Frank Humphreys Storer (1864)
"pectate OP AMMONIA. Soluble in water, Vom which solution it is precipitated by alcohol. ... pectate OF LIME. Insoluble in boiling water, nil ammonia-water. ..."

3. The Soluble Ferments and Fermentation by Joseph Reynolds Green (1901)
"passages have appeared the proportion of calcic pectate is more prominent. As said above the middle lamella is almost if not entirely composed of it, ..."

4. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1827)
"This contains a pectate of potass, which may be decomposed by a small quantity of muriate of lime, largely diluted with distilled water, by which means an ..."

5. The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement by John Claudius Loudon (1827)
"This contains a pectate of potass, which may be decomposed by a small quantity of muriate of lime, largely diluted with distilled water, by which means an ..."

6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"Analysis proves that it is formed of pectate of copper; it is decolorized by the action of acids, and leaves a residue of pectic acid which may ..."

7. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"The middle portion of cell-walls—the so-called middle lamella—. consists, for the most part, of calcium pectate. When thin sections of plant tissues are ..."

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