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  • noun Plural form of arsenate.

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Examples

  • A recent collaboration between Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Paul Davies and Ariel Anbar suggested in a paper an alternative scheme to life as we know it, in which the normally poisonous element arsenic in particular as chemical groups known as arsenates could work in place of phosphorus and phosphates.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • It wouldn't take a lot of THE NIGHT FACE inhaled metallic material to destroy you: radioac-tives, arsenates, perhaps mercury liberated from its oxide by heat.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • When they later had the water analyzed in Nairobi, White learned that “we had had a more than fatal dose of copper arsenates… it was so strong that our stomachs rebelled!!”

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • When they later had the water analyzed in Nairobi, White learned that “we had had a more than fatal dose of copper arsenates… it was so strong that our stomachs rebelled!!”

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The present oxidized zone is very shallow, but may have been deeper before being stripped off by glaciation; it is characterized by native silver and arsenates of nickel and cobalt in the form of the green "nickel bloom" and the pink "cobalt bloom."

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • With arsenates, dissolve the substance in acid and then add an excess of soda.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • It is used for the purpose of separating phosphoric oxide from bases and from other acids, and also as a test for phosphates and arsenates.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • In a neutral solution, other substances (such as phosphates and arsenates) also yield a precipitate with a solution of nitrate of silver; and will count as chloride if they are not removed.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • As in the titration with arsenates, an excess is dangerous to the assay;

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • "Baric chloride" required 20.0 c.c. 20.5 c.c. In the absence of ferric salts, phosphates and arsenates count as sulphur.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

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