chelate

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Chelation Agents are sources that can chemically be in conjunction with or chelate (scrape, as of the Greek chele), metals, material fatal or raw materials, from the body.

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  1. adjective Zoology Having chelae or resembling a chela.
  2. noun Chemistry A chemical compound in the form of a heterocyclic ring, containing a metal ion attached by coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions.
  3. transitive verb Chemistry To combine (a metal ion) with a chemical compound to form a ring.
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  • That's what microbes do, they chelate metals out of water. —  Janine Benyus shares nature's designs
  • At the end of the incubation, 5 µl of 0.5 M EDTA was added to chelate divalent cations. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • However, Simon Robinson of Lantheus Medical Imaging in North Billerica, Massachusetts, and his colleagues found a way around this using gadolinium chelate, a substance that is already used to light up blood in MRI scans. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • The gadolinium chelate eventually detaches from the artery walls and is cleared by the kidneys. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Since MMPs are zinc-dependent endopeptidases, we speculated that the reduction of BP7033Br ALK effect could be due to a reduction of available phosphonic acid groups able to chelate zinc and consequently inhibit MMPs. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. from New Latin chelatus, from chela, q. v.
 

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/ˈkileɪt/
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