olate

present singular third person olates · participle present olating · participle past olated · past olated

1. intransitivechemistryTo form an ol group or compound.

   The hydroxo groups then “olated,” resulting in the formation of large aggregates, eventually reaching colloidal size.

   1931, Arthur W[aldorf] Thomas, Thomas H[illyer] Whitehead, “Ion Interchanges in Aluminum Oxychloride Hydrosols”, in Wilder D[wight] Bancroft, editor, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume XXXIV, Ithaca, N.Y.: The Editor, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45

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   Whereas it is easy to calculate the amount of sodium hydroxide to be added to give a desired basicity in the chrome liquor, it is not possible to forecast what will be the actual basicity of the chrome salts which are present or the extent to which they will olate, for this depends upon such conditions as concentration, temperature, age of liquor, etc.

   1936, E. W. Merry, “The Preparation of Technical Chrome Tanning Liquors”, in The Chrome Tanning Process: Its Theory, Practical Application and Chemical Control, London: A. Harvey, […], →OCLC, part I (Chrome Tanning from the Practical Standpoint), page 9

   Compound 2 olates, as predicted by the hypothesis, and produces the diol [(pico)₂Cr(OH)₂Cr(pico)₂]⁴⁺. […] The well-known fundamental feature of olation, namely that only cis isomers olate and trans isomers do not, is explained, for the first time, by the proposed mechanism and is correlated with the structure of the reagents and products.

   1987, Michael Ardon, Avi Bino, Kirsten Michelsen, “Olation and Structure”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume 109, Washington, D.C.: ACS Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1986