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carboxylates

carboxylates is the plural of carboxylate.

Meaning of carboxylate

Noun

carboxylate (plural carboxylates)

  1. Any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid.
    • […] substitution of a carboxylate would be expected to destabilize the dritterionic mesomer that contributes to the singlet valence bond description as the benzyne geometry becomes more bicyclic.2003, Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 125, page 134

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Questions about carboxylates

What is carboxylates the plural of?
Carboxylates is the plural of carboxylate.

Words near carboxylates in the dictionary

  1. carboxyl methyltransferases
  2. carboxylase
  3. carboxylases
  4. carboxylate
  5. carboxylated
  6. carboxylates
  7. carboxylating
  8. carboxylation
  9. carboxylations
  10. carboxylbenzoyl
  11. carboxylesterase

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