bromate
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- noun
- /ˈbroʊmeɪt/
- Specialized
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bromato
- Many commercial bakers have eliminated bromate from their recipes to ensure consumer safety.
Examples
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The use of bromate in food products is banned in many countries due to health concerns.
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It also stated new MCL goals and MCLs for total THMs, HAAs, chlorite, and bromate.
Academic text (2000) -
Some of the most dangerous preservatives out there are sodium benzoate, sodium nitrate, propyl gallate, thimerosal, and potassium bromate.
Blog text (13) -
In laboratory tests, high levels of bromate have been linked to cancer in rats.
Surface Forms
Morphology
bromate = bromine (semi-transparent) = brom + ate
The formation from the element name 'bromine' plus the chemical suffix '-ate' is formally regular, but understanding '-ate' as indicating a particular oxyanion requires specialised chemical knowledge.
Etymology
Bromate comes from bromine, a name taken from the Greek bromos meaning 'stench' because of the element's sharp smell, together with the chemical ending -ate, as in nitrate and sulfate. So bromate is a form of bromine that includes oxygen, which explains why it names the oxygen-containing bromine compound.