any of various salts of tantalic acid formed when the pentoxide of tantalum dissolves in an alkali
tantalate in American English
(ˈtæntəˌleɪt)
noun
a salt of tantalic acid
tantalate in American English
(ˈtæntlˌeit)
noun
Chemistry
a salt of any tantalic acid
Word origin
[1840–50; tantal(ic acid) + -ate2]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: organizer, pylon, sensationalism, striation, warmup
Examples of 'tantalate' in a sentence
tantalate
The compatibility of rare earths with mixed niobate/tantalate and titanate phases was investigated.
Ali Murad, Iqbal Yaseen, Muhammad Raz 2017, 'Phase evolution and microwave dielectric properties of A5M5O17-type ceramics', Materials Science-Polandhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/msp.2017.35.issue-2/msp-2017-0047/msp-2017-0047.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
X-ray absorption in lithium tantalate induces large, long-lived (∼10−5 s) optical birefringence, visualized via scanning optical polarimetry.
S. M. Durbin, A. Landcastle, A. DiChiara, Haidan Wen, D. Walko, B. Adams 2017, 'Optical birefringence imaging of x-ray excited lithium tantalate', APL Photonicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4997414. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Femtosecond time-resolved pump–probe experiments were carried out to study ultrafast lattice dynamics of ferroelectric lithium tantalate.
Jianbo Hu, Oleg V Misochko, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiroaki Koguchi, Takayuki Eda and KazutakaG Nakamura 2011, 'Ultrafast zone-center coherent lattice dynamics in ferroelectric lithium tantalate',Science and Technology of Advanced Materialshttp://iopscience.iop.org/1468-6996/12/3/034409. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)