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- noun Plural form of
crenate .
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Examples
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The crenates of lime, magnesia, and protoxide of iron are soluble, crenates of peroxide of iron and of oxide of manganese are but very slightly soluble; crenate of alumina is insoluble.
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On the other hand, we are acquainted with no satisfactory evidence that the soluble organic matters of the soil and of peat, especially the crenates and apocrenates, are not actually appropriated by, and, so far as they go, are not directly serviceable as food to plants.
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All the insoluble crenates and apocrenates, are soluble in solutions of the corresponding salts of the alkalies.
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These acids being one of the series of changes effected through the influence of the oxides, they in their turn become active, and unite with the ammonia and form crenates and apocrenates of ammonia.
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In the second, it forms a constituent part of the salts in the soil, as the soluble salts of lime and alkalies, the crenates, etc.
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