Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of three anions, VO3, VO43−, or V2O74−, containing pentavalent vanadium.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A salt of vanadic acid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A salt of vanadic acid.

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

  • noun chemistry any salt of vanadic acid
  • noun chemistry any of the corresponding anions, VO3, VO4, or V2O7

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[vanad(ium) + –ate.]

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Examples

  • The phosphates are often classified together with the arsenate, vanadate, tungstate, and molybdate minerals.

    Composition of rocks 2007

  • The principal sources of uranium and radium are the minerals carnotite (hydrous potassium-uranium vanadate) and pitchblende or uraninite (uranium oxide).

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Vanadinite, a lead-vanadate, and descloizite, a vanadate of copper or lead, are found in the oxide zones of a number of lead and copper deposits in the southwestern United

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Deposits of carnotite, a potassium-uranium vanadate, which have been worked for their content of uranium and radium and from which vanadium has been obtained as a by-product, are found as impregnations of the sandstone in these same localities (p. 265).

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • An unrecorded but small quantity is obtained by the English from lead-vanadate mines in South Africa.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Net proceeds from the funds raised will be used for general working capital purposes including finalizing the commercial production of Zecotek's MAPD solid-state photo detectors, fiber and solid-state lasers, and high performance RFO vanadate laser crystals.

    News 2009

  • MEFs were lysed in lysis buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.6, 150 mM NaCl, 1\% Nonidet P-40, 1 mM sodium vanadate) supplemented with protease inhibitors (Nacalai tesque, Kyoto, Japan).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Koji Taniguchi et al. 2009

  • Net proceeds from the funds raised will be used for general working capital purposes including finalizing the commercial production of Zecotek's MAPD solid-state photo detectors, fiber and solid-state lasers, and high performance RFO vanadate laser crystals.

    unknown title 2009

  • Gordon JA (1991) Use of vanadate as protein-phosphotyrosine phosphatase inhibitor.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Federal Trade Commission to sell Ciba's global indanthrone blue and bismuth vanadate businesses.

    Market News 2009

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