Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A compound in which a hydrogen atom of alcohol is replaced by an alkali metal, as potassium alcoholate, or ethylate, C2H5OK, formed, with evolution of hydrogen, when metallic potassium is dissolved in alcohol. Sometimes contracted to alcoate, alcohate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.
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- noun obsolete, chemistry A crystalline
salt containingalcohol in place ofwater of crystallization . - noun An
alcoholic extract of plant material; atincture . - noun organic chemistry An
alkoxide .
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Examples
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The essence and the alcoholate are also employed, the former obtained by distillation, the latter by macerating the fresh seeds in alcohol.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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