metatungstic acid

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ tungstic + acid

Noun

metatungstic acid (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) An acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates).

Synonyms

• polytungstic acid
• pyrotungstic acid

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “metatungstic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)