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olate

olate verb: to form an ol group or compound.

Verb

olate (third-person singular simple present olates, present participle olating, simple past and past participle olated)

  1. (intransitive) To form an ol group or compound.
    • The hydroxo groups then “olated,” resulting in the formation of large aggregates, eventually reaching colloidal size.1931, Arthur W[aldorf] Thomas, Thomas H[illyer] Whitehead, “Ion Interchanges in Aluminum Oxychloride Hydrosols”, in Wilder D[wight] Bancroft, editor, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume XXXIV...
    • Whereas it is easy to calculate the amount of sodium hydroxide to be added to give a desired basicity in the chrome liquor, it is not possible to forecast what will be the actual basicity of the chrome salts which are present or the extent to which they will olate, for this depends upon such...1936, E. W. Merry, “The Preparation of Technical Chrome Tanning Liquors”, in The Chrome Tanning Process: Its Theory, Practical Application and Chemical Control, London: A. Harvey, […], →OCLC, part I...

Forms of olate

third-person singular presentolates
present participleolating
past participleolated
pastolated

Origin of olate

From ol + -ate.

Questions about olate

What does olate mean?
Olate means to form an ol group or compound.
What part of speech is olate?
Olate is a verb.
What is the past tense of olate?
The past tense of olate is olated.

Words near olate in the dictionary

  1. OLAPs
  2. olaquindox
  3. olaratumab
  4. Olari
  5. olas
  6. olate
  7. olated
  8. olates
  9. Olathe
  10. olating
  11. olation

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