Definition of Aurate

1. n. A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Definition of Aurate

1. Noun. (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of auric acid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aurate

1. having ears [adj]

Medical Definition of Aurate

1. A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium. Origin: L. Auratus, p. P. Of aurare to gild, fr. Aurum gold: cf. F. Aurate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aurate

auraless
auralike
auralities
aurality
aurally
aurally challenged
auramine
auramine O
auramine O fluorescent stain
auramines
auranofin
aurantiaceous
aurantiasis cutis
aurar
auras
aurate (current term)
aurated
aurates
auratic
aureate
aureately
aureation
aurei
aureities
aureity
aurelia
aurelian
aurelians
aurelias
aureola

Literary usage of Aurate

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

1. A Short Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Hermann Kolbe (1884)
"The brown powder so produced consists of a compound of auric oxide and magnesia (magnesium aurate) with the excess of magnesia. When this powder is treated ..."

2. Elements of Inorganic Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science by Thomas Graham (1858)
"The only one of these compounds which has been studied in some degree is the aurate of ammonia, or fulminating gold as it is named, from its violently ..."

3. The Chemical Gazette, Or, Journal of Practical Chemistry, in All Its by William Francis, Henry Croft (1851)
"The aurate of potash may be used as a bath for electro-gilding, but it cannot be used for gilding by immersion. In gilding by immersion by the process of ..."

4. A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies by Thomas Thomson (1831)
"Chloro-aurate of manganese. Crystallizes in yellow rhomboidal prisms, which deliquesce ... Chloro-aurate of nickel. Crystallizes in short rhomboidal prisms, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"Sol. in HBr, or HCl+Aq. (Krüss, B. 19. 2546.) Ammonium aurate. ... (Weigand, Zeit, angew. Ch. 1905, 19. 139.) Calcium aurate (?). ..."

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