tantalic acid

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. an acid, HTaO 3 , that forms complex salts or tantalates.

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tantalic acid British  

noun

1. a white gelatinous substance produced by hydrolysis of tantalic halides. It dissolves in strong bases to give tantalates

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Etymology

Origin of tantalic acid

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Niobic Acid, Ni2O3 in the oxidizing flame.Behaves in a similar manner to tantalic acid, but the glass requires a very large dose of the acid to render it opaque under an intermittent flame.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

The following substances are neither fused nor reduced in soda, viz. alumina, magnesia, lime, baryta, strontia, the oxide of uranium, the oxides of cerium, zirconia, tantalic acid, thorina, glucina, and yttria.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous