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noun
Any salt or ester of oxalic acid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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verb
To coat (steel, etc.) with an oxalate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a salt or ester of oxalic acid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: salt
Narrower terms: uranyl oxalate
History
From French oxalate, equivalent to oxalic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Probably directly from the noun, through the influence of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
