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- noun Plural form of
citrate . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
citrate .
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Examples
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Chelates involving other organic acids such as citrates?
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Despite decades of fires, injuries, deaths, property and forest losses, and public fire-fighting costs, cigarettes may still legally contain citrates, phosphates and calcium carbonate added to make sure the cigarettes don't self-extinguish.
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Lemons are very high in citrates, which inhibit the growth of kidney stones.
Consumption of Iced Teas might Risk you of Kidney Stones 2008
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Certain citrates have a retarding influence upon calcic sulphates.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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These berries furnish a fragrant oil, the _essence de petit grain_, and contain citrates, and malates of lime and potash, with
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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If the red prussiate has not been recrystallized, the whites will be unsatisfactory and the samples of citrates of iron and ammonia which have come to us from other chemists than those named, have all proved unreliable for this process.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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Lemon juice and vinegar are merely acetates and citrates of potash, and are not as good.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various
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It forms a comparatively unimportant class of salts (citrates).
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Now, neutral tartrates, citrates, and acetates of the alkalis are found, in their passage through the system, to be changed into carbonates; and to convert a tartrate into a carbonate requires an additional quantity of oxygen, the abstraction of which must lessen the oxygen destined for assimilation with the blood, on the quantity of which the vigorous action of the human system partly depends.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Now, neutral tartrates, citrates, and acetates of the alkalis are found, in their passage through the system, to be changed into carbonates; and to convert a tartrate into a carbonate requires an additional quantity of oxygen, the abstraction of which must lessen the oxygen destined for assimilation with the blood, on the quantity of which the vigorous action of the human system partly depends.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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