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Salt of substance used in tanning
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tannate
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Tannate \Tan"nate\, n. [Cf. F. tannate.] (Chem.) A salt of tannic acid.
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n. (context organic chemistry English) Any salt or ester of tannic acid
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A tannate is the salt or ester of tannic acid . Albumin tannate (also known as Tannin albuminate) is an antidiarrheal.
Usage examples of tannate.
They react with the green vitriol, which in Grantville is called iron sulfate, to form the dark iron tannate and gallate.
When iron relics 2,000 years old were discovered recently in ordinarily destructive soil at Hungate, York, England, chemical tests of the soil in which they were found disclosed that tannates from an ancient shoe factory had seeped into the ground, the tannates apparently preventing rusting of the iron.