borate

American  

[bawr-eyt, -it, bohr-, bawr-eyt, bohr-] / ˈbɔr eɪt, -ɪt, ˈboʊr-, ˈbɔr eɪt, ˈboʊr- /

noun

1. a salt or ester of boric acid.

2. (loosely) a salt or ester of any acid containing boron.

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verb (used with object)

borated, borating

1. to treat with borate, boric acid, or borax.

borate British  

noun

1. a salt or ester of boric acid. Salts of boric acid consist of BO 3 and BO 4 units linked together

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verb

1. (tr) to treat with borax, boric acid, or borate

borate Scientific  

/ bôr′āt′ /

1. A salt or ester of boric acid, containing the radical BO ₃.

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Etymology

Origin of borate

First recorded in 1810–20; bor- ( def. ) + -ate ²

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.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2024

Borax, or sodium borate decahydrate, is a salt made of a combination of boron, sodium, oxygen and hydrogen.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2023

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.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

To create their qutrits, both teams used the triple-branching path of a photon, expressed in carefully orchestrated optical systems of lasers, beam splitters and barium borate crystals.

From Scientific American • Aug. 6, 2019

A good dryer for printers’ use is made by taking a small quantity of perfectly dry acetate of lead or borate of manganese in impalpable powder will hasten the drying of the ink.

From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by Ford, J. Sawtelle