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- noun Plural form of
lactate .
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Examples
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Not lactates, or lactones, or lactylates, or any of the dozen other chemical names that might be encountered.
Lactic Acid Is Not Lactose Steve Carper 2008
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A cow only lactates when it has a calf, and that calf drinks milk.
Cheese Isn’t Very Vegetarian Or Healthy | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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And I never thought about this before, but the only way to make cheese out of a goat or a sheep is to take its newborn baby away and co-opt the milk as long as it lactates.
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Should someone with LI be concerned about lactates or just lactose.
Answers to Questions from Readers, part 3 Steve Carper 2007
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None of the sound-like-milks (lactates, lactylates, lactic acid, etc.) should be a problem to anyone who is LI.
Answers to Questions from Readers, part 3 Steve Carper 2007
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The lactates appear in combination with calcium, sodium, potassium or, rarely, other elements.
Archive 2006-06-01 Steve Carper 2006
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The lactates appear in combination with calcium, sodium, potassium or, rarely, other elements.
Lactates not Lactose Steve Carper 2006
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In Jungle Fever, the roles are reversed and you play a woman who lactates the fire out.
Archive 2006-08-01 Tripp 2006
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In Jungle Fever, the roles are reversed and you play a woman who lactates the fire out.
Oh dear lord Tripp 2006
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Now, when Freckles lactates, her milk is full of spider-silk protein.
The Guardian World News Adam Rutherford 2012
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