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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A salt of metatungstic acid. The metatungstates are not precipitated by the addition of an acid unless the solution is boiled for some time, when ordinary tungstic acid is thrown down.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A salt of metatungstic acid.

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  • noun inorganic chemistry Any tungstate that contains multiple atoms of tungsten e.g. W4O132-

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meta- +‎ tungstate

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