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oleate

[oh-lee-eyt]
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noun
  1. Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
  2. Pharmacology. a preparation, as an ointment, composed of medicated oleic acid.
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Origin of oleate

First recorded in 1825–35; ole(ic acid) + -ate2
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Examples from the Web for oleate

Historical Examples

  • From this date he used the oleate only once daily, and discontinued it entirely on the 14th.

    The Electric Bath

    George M. Schweig

  • Leave it for a day, when the oleate of soda will be dissolved.

    Soap-Bubbles

    C. V. Boys

  • Another method of mordanting cotton is to fix the metallic salt on the fibre as a tannate instead of an oleate.

  • We may thus conceive how a small quantity of stearate or oleate of potash may resist the decomposing action of the soda salts.

  • Ointment of ammoniated mercury, twenty to sixty grains to the ounce; oleate of mercury, five to ten per cent.

    Essentials of Diseases of the Skin

    Henry Weightman Stelwagon

British Dictionary definitions for oleate

oleate

noun
  1. any salt or ester of oleic acid, containing the ion C 17 H 33 COO – or the group C 17 H 33 COO-: common components of natural fats
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oleate in Medicine

oleate

(ō′lē-āt′)
n.
  1. A salt or ester of oleic acid.
  2. A pharmacopeial preparation consisting of a combination or solution of an alkaloid or metallic base in oleic acid.
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