tungstate

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Commercial sodium tungstate is fused with dried calcium chloride in the proportion of three parts of the former to two parts of the latter, both constituents being in fine powder and well mixed together.

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  1. noun A salt of tungstic acid.

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  • I also found that this tungstate could be put into a vacuum chamber of glass and fused to the inner walls of the chamber; and if the X-ray electrodes were let into the glass chamber and a proper vacuum was attained, you could get a fluorescent lamp of several candle-power. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Molybdate, selenate, chromate (chromium VI), arsenate, tungstate, chlorate, and perchlorate bind to the ATP sulfurylase domain, with the first five serving as alternative substrates that promote the decomposition of ATP to AMP and PPi. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Dual-readout calorimetry with lead tungstate crystals —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Results are presented of beam tests in which a small electromagnetic calorimeter consisting of lead tungstate crystals was exposed to 50 GeV electrons and pions. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • For starters, if you do have too much molybdenum in your systems, add some tungsten (sodium tungstate) into your diet, which naturally reduces the concentration of molybdenum in human tissues.
 

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/ˈtəŋsteɪt/
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