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noun
any salt of chromic acid; in solution the yellow chromate anion (CrO42−) is in equilibrium with the orange dichromate anion (Cr2O72−), the relative amount of each ion depending on the pH; they are both very powerful oxidizing agents
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To treat with a chromate solution
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
any salt or ester of chromic acid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: salt
Narrower terms: lead chromate
History
From chromic acid + -ate.
Etymology tree English chromic acid Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English chromate From chromic acid + -ate.
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