uvate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin uva (“grape”) + -ate.
Noun
[edit]uvate (uncountable)
- A conserve made of grapes.
- 1892, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Resources and Development of Mexico, page 233:
- Aguascalientes also produces a fine grape preserve, commonly known as uvate.
- (chemistry) A salt of uvic acid.
- 1878, George H. U. Harrow, “On Pyrotritartaric and Carbopyrotritartaric Acids, Produts of teh Action of Dilute Sulphuric Acid on Diacetosuccinic Ether”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, volume 33, page 431:
- He, however, found that reaction takes place between silver uvate and ethyl iodide in the cold, but he used ethyl iodide diluted with alcohol, which alcohol probably contained enough water to re-produce uvic acid.