Definitions for oleate

oleate o·le·ate

Spelling: [oh-lee-eyt]
IPA: /ˈoʊ liˌeɪt/

Oleate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in oleate (aeelot).

Definitions for oleate

noun

  1. Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
  2. Pharmacology. a preparation, as an ointment, composed of medicated oleic acid.

Origin of oleate

First recorded in 1825-35; ole(ic acid) + -ate2

Examples for oleate

Leave it for a day, when the oleate of soda will be dissolved.

Add one-fortieth part of its weight of oleate of soda, which will probably float on the water.

It is doubtful if drugs have any direct influence upon gall-stones, such as sulphate of soda, olive oil or oleate of soda.

We may thus conceive how a small quantity of stearate or oleate of potash may resist the decomposing action of the soda salts.

Another method of mordanting cotton is to fix the metallic salt on the fibre as a tannate instead of an oleate.

Ointment of ammoniated mercury, twenty to sixty grains to the ounce; oleate of mercury, five to ten per cent.

From this date he used the oleate only once daily, and discontinued it entirely on the 14th.

Word Value for oleate
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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