Definitions for citrate

citrate cit·rate

Spelling: [si-treyt, sahy-]
IPA: /ˈsɪ treɪt, ˈsaɪ-/

Citrate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in citrate (aceirtt).

Definitions for citrate

noun

  1. a salt or ester of citric acid.

Origin of citrate

First recorded in 1785-95; citr(ic acid) + -ate2

Examples for citrate

Wash the precipitated quinine on a filter, and having added solution of citrate of iron, 10 fl.

The best preparations of iron are either the tincture of the perchloride, or nitrate, or the citrate of iron and quinine.

The bowels should be freely opened with citrate of magnesia.

By mixing a hot solution of sulphate of quinine with a like solution of citrate of soda.

Attend to those phials, and drain them well before you bottle the citrate of magnesia.

The citrate of iron and quinine (a few grains daily) can be given a long time in succession.

The iron present in the above preparations is in the form of citrate.

It is used in the forms of carbonate and citrate, and is generally combined with potash and soda.

Saline draughts of citrate or acetate of ammonia, rendered alkaline in excess by Sp.

Ask for "citrate of iron and ammonium" when buying the ingredients for the formula.

Word Value for citrate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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