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Xeronate vs Peronate - What's the difference?

xeronate | peronate |

As a noun xeronate

is any salt of xeronic acid.

As an adjective peronate is

sheathed with a covering.

xeronate

English

Noun

  • (chemistry, dated) Any salt of xeronic acid.
  • * 1887 , Henry Enfield Roscoe, A treatise on chemistry: Volume 3, Part 2
    • When dissolved in ammonia, and calcium chloride added, a crystalline precipitate is formed of calcium xeronate , C8H10O4Ca + H2O, and this when treated with hydrochloric acid does not yield xeronic acid, but is transformed again into the anhydride.

    peronate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (mycology) sheathed with a covering