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terephthalate
[ ter-ef-thal-eyt, -it, tuh-ref-thuh-leyt ]
/ ˌtɛr ɛfˈθæl eɪt, -ɪt, təˈrɛf θəˌleɪt /
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noun Chemistry.
a salt or ester of terephthalic acid.
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Origin of terephthalate
First recorded in 1865–70; terephthal(ic acid) + -ate2
Words nearby terephthalate
teredo, terefah, Terence, Terengganu, te reo, terephthalate, terephthalic acid, Teresa, Tereshkova, Teresian, Teresina
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How to use terephthalate in a sentence
When squeezed to about a million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure and heated to thousands of degrees Celsius, polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, forms nanodiamonds, physicist Dominik Kraus and colleagues report September 2 in Science Advances.