Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A salt of glycolic acid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry Any salt or ester of a glycolic acid

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word glycolate.

Examples

  • In addition to carbonates of sodium, especially the hydrocarbonate known as glycolate, the bile apparently contains ammonium sulphate combined with hydrocarbon (taurin); but this results from the transposition of sodium sulphate and gelatine.

    Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

  • Prozac phosphate dihydrate, hypromellose, nosepiece stearate, queasey glycols, ramble 80, scintigraphy starch glycolate, precribe dioxide, and 1 or quicker of the following: d

    Wii-volution 2010

  • Presumably the T2SS and glycolate operon were present in the common ancestor and lost in the O157: H7 lineage.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010

  • It includes the flu gene and a gene cluster for a T2SS, both with a potential role in pathogenesis, and a glycolate operon.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010

  • Bouwman's catalyst, however, reacts with carbon dioxide but not oxygen, producing oxalate, which is a useful feedstock for the manufacture of methyl glycolate and other organic compounds.

    MAKE Magazine 2010

  • His medical records indicate that he was exposed to nonlethal incapacitating agents like DHMP and glycolate, both of which act as sedatives that produce hallucinations.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.