chelating agent

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a ligand that forms chelates.

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chelating agent British  

noun

1. a chemical compound that coordinates with a metal to form a chelate, often used to trap or remove heavy metal ions

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Example Sentences

A chelating ligand is also known as a chelating agent.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Then he filtered out the chelating agent and washed it with acid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he flushed the chelating agent with dilute hydrochloric acid.

From Time Magazine Archive

He concocted another chelating agent with an appetite for gold and went back once more to Naples.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the chelating agent in the fruit turns red when it’s connected up with iron—in fact, it’s even redder than blood hemoglobin.

From Cum Grano Salis by Garrett, Randall