Definitions for oxalate

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oxalate ox·a·late

Spelling: [ok-suh-leyt]

IPA: /ˈɒk səˌleɪt/

Oxalate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in oxalate (aaelotx).

Definitions for oxalate

noun

1. any salt or ester of oxalic acid, occurring in plants, especially spinach, rhubarb, and certain other vegetables and nuts, and capable of forming an insoluble salt with calcium and interfering with its absorption by the body.

Origin of oxalate

First recorded in 1785-85; oxal(ic) + -ate²

Examples for oxalate

An aqueous solution in the cold is not precipitated by oxalate of ammonium.

The parenchyma of the barks abounds in starch and oxalate of lime, or else contains a soft brown deposit.

They are of inorganic matter, usually of oxalate or phosphate or sulphate of lime.

The relative prevalency of the oxalate of lime calculus is very various.

This oxalate of sodium is now decomposed by boiling milk of lime.

By heating the nitrate, carbonate, or oxalate, to redness in open vessels.

This may be detected with oxalate of ammonia, which throws down the lime as a clearly perceptible precipitate.

The microscope showed it to be free from oxalate of lime or other raphides.

It is more in use now, but I do not consider it equal to oxalate of iron.

With regard to oxalate of soda, or binoxalate of potash, 14·2 grms.