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paratungstates

paratungstates is the plural of paratungstate.

Meaning of paratungstate

Noun

paratungstate (countable and uncountable, plural paratungstates)

  1. Any of certain tungstates with certain ratios of tungsten atoms to the other atoms present, thus evoking certain chemical properties (e.g., degrees of solubility and precipitability).
    • PARATUNGSTATES. A number of acid tungstates have been isolated, the composition of which is expressed by one of the formulæ 3RO.7WO₃ or 5RO.12WO₃. The former formula was given by Lotz (A. 91, 49) and Scheibler (J. pr. 83, 273) ; the latter formula by Laurent (A. Ch. [3] 21, 54) and Marignac (A. Ch....1894, “[s.v.] paratungstates”, in Henry Watts, Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Henry Forster Morley, editors, Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry, volume 4, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 804

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Paratungstates is the plural of paratungstate.

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