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hydroxamates

hydroxamates is the plural of hydroxamate.

Meaning of hydroxamate

Noun

hydroxamate (plural hydroxamates)

  1. A hydroxylamine compound containing a CONOH group, often serving as chelating agents.
    • In general, the hydroxamates are used for flotation of oxidic minerals (pyrochlore, cassiterite and ilmenite), rare-earth oxides and oxide copper minerals.2007, Srdjan M. Bulatovic, Handbook of Flotation Reagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 13

Questions about hydroxamates

What is hydroxamates the plural of?
Hydroxamates is the plural of hydroxamate.

Words near hydroxamates in the dictionary

  1. hydrovolcanic
  2. hydrovolcanism
  3. hydrowoodwardite
  4. hydrox
  5. hydroxamate
  6. hydroxamates
  7. hydroxamic
  8. hydroxamic acid
  9. hydroxamic acids
  10. hydroxamide
  11. hydroxamides

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