Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general term applied, in organic chemistry, to compounds of metallic oxids with certain sugars such as glucose and saccharose. Also called
saccharate , the more usual term.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt.
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- noun chemistry A
compound ofsucrose (or some relatedcarbohydrate ) with abase , after theanalogy of asalt .
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Examples
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The lime formed by the decomposition of the carbide is loosened from the unattacked portion and taken more or less into solution as sucrate of lime, which is a soluble salt which the glucose or sugar in the treated carbide forms with lime.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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These solutions should be made with a great deal of care and prudence, as the sucrate of lime is an accelerator of very great energy.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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This objection does not obtain for the first, provided, however, that ordinary lime water is not used, but a solution of succharate or sucrate of lime.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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I do not give this process with sucrate of lime as perfect, but I give it as perfectable and susceptible of application.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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