borate
Americannoun
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a salt or ester of boric acid.
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(loosely) a salt or ester of any acid containing boron.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of borate
First recorded in 1810–20; bor- ( def. ) + -ate 2
Example Sentences
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This intermediate step is crucial, as Nagashima remarks: "Our detailed mechanistic studies revealed that the photoexcited borate complex both accelerates the cycloaddition and suppresses the rearomatization that usually occurs in conventional photocycloaddition reactions."
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
My borate of glass good, and common electricity better than voltaic.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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