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chloridate

chloridate verb: to treat or prepare with a chloride.

Verb

chloridate (third-person singular simple present chloridates, present participle chloridating, simple past and past participle chloridated)

  1. (transitive) To treat or prepare with a chloride.
    • the positive photographs can be formed by transfer on the chloridated papers of a highly sensitive kind.1853, Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography
    Synonyms:
    chloridize

Synonyms of chloridate

Forms of chloridate

third-person singular presentchloridates
present participlechloridating
past participlechloridated
pastchloridated

Origin of chloridate

From chloride + -ate.

Questions about chloridate

What does chloridate mean?
Chloridate means to treat or prepare with a chloride.
What part of speech is chloridate?
Chloridate is a verb.
What is the past tense of chloridate?
The past tense of chloridate is chloridated.

Words near chloridate in the dictionary

  1. chlorian
  2. chloric
  3. chloric acid
  4. chlorid
  5. chloridaemia
  6. chloridate
  7. chloridated
  8. chloridates
  9. chloridating
  10. chloride
  11. chloride of lime

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