Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A salt of paratungstic acid. Sodium paratungstate, known in commerce as tungstate of soda, is used in mordanting cloth by dyers and calico-printers, and in rendering cotton and linen goods uninflammable.

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  • noun chemistry The para- form of a tungstate.

Etymologies

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para- +‎ tungstate

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  • Some of the key input assumptions include a sales price of US$375 per metric tonne unit of WO3 in ammonium paratungstate, a twenty-one year mine life at an annual mill-feed production rate of 1.2 million tonnes, an average grade of 0.41% WO3, and an after-tax constant-dollar discount rate of 8%.

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  • Tungsten is typically priced according to metric ton units (mtu) of intermediate product ammonium paratungstate (APT).

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