Definitions for oleates

oleates o·le·ate

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

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

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in oleates (aeelost).

Definitions for oleates

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 oleates

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

Examples for oleates

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

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

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

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.

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.

Word Value for oleates
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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