Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt of metavanadic acid, as sodium metavanadate, NaVO3, and ammonium metavanadate, NH4VO3. The latter of these gives a deep-black color with tincture of galls which has been proposed for use as writing-ink; it has also been used in the development of aniline black on cotton cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of metavanadic acid.
Etymologies
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meta- + vanadate
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Soc. _, 1905, 25, p. 251), or by ammonium metavanadate (A.W. Browne and F.F. Shetterly, _Abst.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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