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borate
[bawr-eyt, -it, bohr-, bawr-eyt, bohr-]
noun
a salt or ester of boric acid.
(loosely) a salt or ester of any acid containing boron.
verb (used with object)
to treat with borate, boric acid, or borax.
borate
noun
a salt or ester of boric acid. Salts of boric acid consist of BO 3 and BO 4 units linked together
verb
(tr) to treat with borax, boric acid, or borate
borate
A salt or ester of boric acid, containing the radical BO 3.
Word History and Origins
Origin of borate1
Example Sentences
By leveraging a light-sensitive borate intermediate, the scientists could transform quinoline derivatives into a great variety of 2D/3D fused frameworks in a straightforward and cost-effective manner.
Borax, or sodium borate decahydrate, is a salt made of a combination of boron, sodium, oxygen and hydrogen.
A thin slab of barium borate first split a single photon into two of photons lower energy with correlated angular momenta.
A group of environmental activists have camped outside the presidency building in central Belgrade for several days while demanding a legal ban on lithium and borate mining in Serbia.
Boron in cardboard is in the fairly soluble borate form.
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