Definitions for oxalates

oxalates ox·a·late

Spelling: [ok-suh-leyt]
IPA: /ˈɒk səˌleɪt/

Oxalates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in oxalates (aaelostx).

Definitions for oxalates

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 oxalates

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

Examples for oxalates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for oxalates
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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