Definition of Formate

1. n. A salt of formic acid.

Definition of Formate

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of formic acid. ¹

2. Verb. (aeronautics) To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Formate

1. a chemical salt [n -S]

Medical Definition of Formate

1. A salt of formic acid. Alternative forms: formiate. See: Formic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Formate

formalizers
formalizes
formalizing
formally
formalness
formalnesses
formals
formalwear
formamidase
formamide
formamides
formamidopyridine-DNA glycosylase
formant
formants
format
formate (current term)
formate-NADP oxidoreductase
formate-tetrahydrofolate ligase
formate dehydrogenases
formate hydrogen lyase
formated
formates
formating
formatio
formatio reticularis
formation
formation rule
formation rules
formational
formationes

Literary usage of Formate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Separates, together with formate of copper and strontium, from a strongly acid solution of 2 at. formate of strontium and 1 at. formate of copper, ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"The ammonium formate precipitated was separated by- nitration, and then, by fractional distillation, pure ethyl formate distilling within two-tenths of a ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1882)
"FORMED by passing dry chlorine through amyl formate from five to six days. The amyl formate is placed in a tube corresponding to a quarter circle and set ..."

4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1882)
"FORMED by passing dry chlorine through amyl formate from five to six days ... The amyl formate is placed in a tube corresponding to a quarter circle and set ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Ind. 1893, 864) obtains a mixture of ammonium formate and bicarbonate by passing moist nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide over slightly ..."

6. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1916)
"BP 2200, of 1903), at a temperature over 80°, formate is produced, ... P. 111078 ammonium formate is transformed by heating into oxalate. ..."

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