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🧪 A chemical salt 🧪 To add citric salt
to citrate

to citrate

1 9.9
To make a salt from the acid found in lemons for use in food or medicine
  • verb
  • /ˈsɪtreɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : citratar
  • Citrated blood samples were being assessed with Technican H1 (American product) for Hb, HCT, and MCV.

Examples

  • They will citrate the compound to enhance its bioavailability in the experiment.

  • The drug's called clomiphene citrate.

    Predator: Badlands (2025)

  • Some meth to get up, a little fentanyl citrate to come down.

    Playing God (1997)

  • The blood was drained into a sterile citrated collection bag.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Sildenafil citrate.

    Love & Other Drugs (2010)

  • The laboratory technician will citrate the solution to study its properties.

  • To prepare the sample, you need to citrate the solution using the correct methodology.

Compounds

sildenafil citrate
  • Specialized
1 4.9

A medicine that helps men get and keep an erection

clomiphene citrate
  • Specialized
7.0

A medicine that makes a woman release an egg to help her become pregnant

Surface Forms

citrate infinitive
citrated past
citrated past participle
citrating present participle
citrates third person singular

Etymology

To citrate comes from the same parts: citric (from 'citrus') and -ate, which here means 'to make' or 'form a salt'. So to citrate something is to 'turn it into a citrate', in other words to make a salt or related chemical of citric acid, a step chemists use to change how a substance behaves.