tannate

American  

[tan-ayt] / ˈtæn eɪt /

noun

Chemistry.

1. a salt of tannic acid.

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tannate British  

/ ˈtæneɪt /

noun

1. any salt or ester of tannic acid

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Etymology

Origin of tannate

First recorded in 1795–1805; tann(in) + -ate ²

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Example Sentences

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tannate

We then dip the mordanted piece of cotton into the colour bath, containing, for instance, Magenta, and it is dyed a fine red, composed of a tannate of antimony and Magenta.

From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Albert Shonk

"A gelatine lozenge dropped into the tea cup precipitates the tannin in the form of tannate of gelatine," said the clergyman to Miss Mergle, in a confidential bray.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The cotton is then worked in a solution of tartar emetic or stannic chloride, so that the tannic acid absorbed by the fibre may be fixed upon it as insoluble tannate of antimony or tin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

They are usually applied to wool and silk in a neutral or slightly alkaline bath; on cotton they are fixed by means of tannate of antimony or tin.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various

A coffee-spoonful of this solution contains 0.03 gram of the tannate, and this quantity may be given to a child, in a little milk.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

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