Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A salt or ester of citric acid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In chem., a salt of citric acid.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry Any salt or ester of citric acid.
- v. To cause to form citrate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A salt of citric acid.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a salt or ester of citric acid
- v. cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid
Etymologies
- From citric. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The only known barrier to aerobic growth on citrate is its inability to transport citrate under oxic conditions (41 – 43).”
“Indeed, the inability to use citrate is one of the traits by which bacteriologists distinguish E. coli from other species.”
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“Calcium citrate is only about 20% elemental calcium.”
“Moreover, Bio Shape works metabolically through Garcinia Cambogia, which inhibits an enzyme called citrate lyase to prevent excess fat.”
“In fact, the best type of calcium, because it is the most soluble, is calcium citrate, which is itself mildly acidic.”
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“I recommend calcium citrate, which is the most absorbable form.”
“Reverted phosphoric acid is also called citrate soluble phosphoric acid, because in testing fertilizers the chemists use ammonium citrate to determine the amount of reverted phosphoric acid.”
“As far as can be ascertained from the superficial trials with the last six salts, the citrate is the least powerful, and the phosphate certainly by far the most.”
“Orange juice contains a substance known as citrate, which grabs calcium and promotes safe excretion.”
“You need about 270mg a day, and look for magnesium citrate, which is easier to absorb than magnesium oxide. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘citrate’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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