Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salt or ester of oxalic acid.
- transitive verb To treat (a specimen) with an oxalate or oxalic acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., a salt formed by a combination of oxalic acid with a base: as, potassium oxalate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of oxalic acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any
salt orester ofoxalic acid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a salt or ester of oxalic acid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Limiting meat, salt, and foods high in oxalate (eg, green leafy vegetables, chocolate, nuts) in the diet may also be recommended.
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Ice tea contains the chemical oxalate, which is the key culprit in the formation of kidney stones, a painful and common disorder of the urinary tract.
Too much iced tea? GreenFertility 2008
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Ice tea contains the chemical oxalate, which is the key culprit in the formation of kidney stones, a painful and common disorder of the urinary tract.
Archive 2008-06-01 GreenFertility 2008
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The precipitate is thorium oxalate, which is washed with hot water, dried, and ignited.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Kidney stones develop when the urine contains more crystal-forming substances -- including calcium, uric acid and a compound called oxalate -- than can be diluted by the available fluid.
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The researchers converted that carbon to an oxalate, which is the building block of various chemicals, from wood alcohol to antifreeze.
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Kidney stones develop when the urine contains more crystal-forming substances - such as calcium, uric acid and a compound called oxalate - than can be diluted by the available fluid.
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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
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Matlaga explains that kidney stones are often caused by an excess of a dietary component known as oxalate, which normally binds with calcium and is flushed out of the body.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Reducing calcium intake often causes problems with other minerals (eg, oxalate) and may result in a higher risk for calcium stone disease.
hernesheir commented on the word oxalate
In the Hey system of mineral classification, this term refers to a group of minerals comprised of glushinskite, humboldtine, minguzzite, moolooite, oxammite, stepanovite, weddellite, wheatleyite, whewellite, and zhemchuzhnikovite.
June 8, 2010