XANTHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does xanthate mean? 

• XANTHATE (noun)
  The noun XANTHATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt or ester of xanthic acid

  Familiarity information: XANTHATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• XANTHATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester of xanthic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("xanthate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "xanthate"):

cellulose xanthate; viscose (a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda)

 Context examples 

The researchers are not the first to explore biological filters using xanthates to remove arsenic from drinking water.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

Xanthates are produced when alcohol reacts with sodium or potassium hydroxide and carbon disulphide.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

The researchers treated watermelon rind with xanthate salts — which attract and bind arsenic — to produce a filter capable of removing 95 per cent of arsenic from water samples taken from around Pakistan.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)