stannate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stannate
First recorded in 1830–40; stann(ic acid) + -ate 2
Example Sentences
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For example, ferrate is used instead of ironate, plumbate instead leadate, and stannate instead of tinate.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Sodium acetate, 196. — bichromate, 164. — nitrite solution, 196, 198. — stannate, preparing with, 158.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech
However that may be, in these days both names signify cobalt compounds, cœruleum being a stannate of cobalt, and cyanine a mixture of cobalt and Prussian blue.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Another process is to boil the gun-cotton, &c., in a solution of sodium stannate made by adding caustic soda to a solution of stannous chloride, until the precipitate first formed is just re-dissolved.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
The precipitate is then washed and dried, whereupon it takes a green colour tinged with blue, but without the brightness or durability of the preceding stannate.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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