tungstate
IPA: tˈʌŋsteɪt
noun
- (chemistry) Any salt of tungstic acid.
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Examples of "tungstate" in Sentences
- It will be made of lead tungstate crystals.
- In soil, tungsten metal oxidizes to the tungstate anion.
- C. to substantially dissolve all of the sodium tungstate.
- Sodium tungstate is a competitive inhibitor of molybdenum.
- Tungstate minerals contain tungsten in the anion group O42 .
- Cadmium tungstate films can be deposited by sol gel technology.
- Similar materials are calcium tungstate scheelite and zinc tungstate.
- Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula Ca O4.
- The invention is useful in upgrading impure calcium tungstate concentrates.
- Sodium tungstate and lead have been studied for their effect on earthworms.
- The phosphates are often classified together with the arsenate, vanadate, tungstate, and molybdate minerals.
- Also many lodes contain hard heavy ferric ores, such as titanic iron, tungstate of iron, and hematite, in which gold is held.
- 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.
- Tungsten is retrieved from the ore minerals scheelite (CaWO4, calcium tungstate) and wolframite ((Fe, Mn) WO4, iron-manganese tungstate).
- (As an aside, the mineral scheelite (Ca (WO4, MoO4), calcium tungstate-molybdate) was named after Scheele in honor of his discovery of molybdenum.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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