Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salt of tungstic acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt of tungstic acid: as, tungstate of lime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any salt of
tungstic acid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a salt of tungstic acid
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Examples
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Both wolfram and scheelite are of considerable importance as a source of tungstic acid for the manufacture of sodium tungstate, which is used as a mordant and for some other purposes, and as a source of metallic tungsten, which is used in steel-making.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Nancy Durant, a 15-year-old Negro girl from a Washington high school, handed in an essay proposing the use of sodium tungstate for fireproofing fabrics — a valuable new method.
Archive 2007-03-01 Peggy 2007
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Nancy Durant, a 15-year-old Negro girl from a Washington high school, handed in an essay proposing the use of sodium tungstate for fireproofing fabrics — a valuable new method.
WWII-era Westinghouse Science Talent Search Winners Peggy 2007
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(As an aside, the mineral scheelite (Ca (WO4, MoO4), calcium tungstate-molybdate) was named after Scheele in honor of his discovery of molybdenum.)
Molybdenum 2008
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Tungsten is retrieved from the ore minerals scheelite (CaWO4, calcium tungstate) and wolframite ((Fe, Mn) WO4, iron-manganese tungstate).
Tungsten 2008
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The phosphates are often classified together with the arsenate, vanadate, tungstate, and molybdate minerals.
Composition of rocks 2007
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Unaffected by foul air, the tungstate appears to possess the common fault of all whites when compared with white lead -- want of body, moreover it is a bad dryer.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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With us, at least, tungstate of baryta is far from having the body of white lead, and indeed is inferior in opacity to good zinc white.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Also many lodes contain hard heavy ferric ores, such as titanic iron, tungstate of iron, and hematite, in which gold is held.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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A patented material of this description is due to Zingler, who boils the canvas or similar woven fabric under pressure in a solution of tungstate of soda for three hours.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various
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