tantalic acid

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. an acid, HTaO 3 , that forms complex salts or tantalates.

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tantalic acid British  

noun

1. a white gelatinous substance produced by hydrolysis of tantalic halides. It dissolves in strong bases to give tantalates

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Etymology

Origin of tantalic acid

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Niobic Acid, Ni2O3 in the oxidizing flame.Behaves in a similar manner to tantalic acid, but the glass requires a very large dose of the acid to render it opaque under an intermittent flame.

From Project Gutenberg

The following substances are neither fused nor reduced in soda, viz. alumina, magnesia, lime, baryta, strontia, the oxide of uranium, the oxides of cerium, zirconia, tantalic acid, thorina, glucina, and yttria.

From Project Gutenberg

Tantalic Acid, TaO3. in the oxidizing flame.Dissolves readily to a clear colorless glass, which, when sufficiently saturated, may be rendered opaque with an intermittent flame, and with a larger addition of the acid becomes spontaneously enameline on cooling.

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