Definitions for borate

borate bo·rate

Spelling: [noun bawr-eyt, -it, bohr-; verb Borate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in borate (abeort).

Definitions for borate

noun

  1. a salt or ester of boric acid.
  2. (loosely) a salt or ester of any acid containing boron.

verb (used with object)

  1. to treat with borate, boric acid, or borax.

Origin of borate

First recorded in 1810-20; bor- + -ate2

Examples for borate

The quantity of the borate taken should contain not more than 0.2 gram of the trioxide.

A small quantity of perfectly dry acetate of lead or borate of manganese in impalpable powder will hasten the drying of the ink.

This is the only important case known of borate deposits of marine origin.

borates thus made, melt generally by themselves; but admixed with borate of soda, they fuse much more readily, give a clear bead.

If the borate or phosphate of lime be used, the green color of the acids predominates over the red of the lime.

The former must be distinguished from the white pulverulent precipitate of borate of silver, which is thrown down from pure borax.

Phosphate and borate of lime produce a green flame which is only characteristic of their acids.

At a red heat the litharge and borate of lead are fused, and cause the adhesion of the platinum to the softened glass.

The salts of potash, with the exception of the borate and the phosphate, color the flame of a rich violet hue.

If turmeric paper be dipped into a solution of a borate, and then be dried at 100° C., it is turned to a peculiar red color.

Word Value for borate
Scrable

8

Words with friends

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