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Etymology edit

over- +‎ titration

Noun edit

overtitration (countable and uncountable, plural overtitrations)

  1. (analytical chemistry) The addition of excess titrant to an analyte past its endpoint.
    • 2014 September 21, Norbert W. Lutz, Evelyne Béraud, and Patrick J. Cozzone, “Metabolomic Analysis of Rat Brain by High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Tissue Extracts”, in PubMed Central[1]:
      Avoid "overtitration", i.e. add less than the stoichiometric amount of CsOH to the CDTA solution.

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