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columbic +‎ -ate

Noun

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columbate (countable and uncountable, plural columbates)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) A salt of columbic acid; a niobate.
  2. (mineralogy) columbite

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for columbate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)