oleate

[ oh-lee-eyt ]

/ ˈoʊ liˌeɪt /

Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.

Pharmacology. a preparation, as an ointment, composed of medicated oleic acid.

Origin of oleate

First recorded in 1825–35; ole(ic acid) + -ate²

Ointment of ammoniated mercury, twenty to sixty grains to the ounce; oleate of mercury, five to ten per cent.

Essentials of Diseases of the Skin |Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Leave it for a day, when the oleate of soda will be dissolved.

Soap-Bubbles |C. V. Boys
We may thus conceive how a small quantity of stearate or oleate of potash may resist the decomposing action of the soda salts.

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines |Andrew Ure
Another method of mordanting cotton is to fix the metallic salt on the fibre as a tannate instead of an oleate.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 |Various

Add one-fortieth part of its weight of oleate of soda, which will probably float on the water.

Soap-Bubbles |C. V. Boys

oleate

/ (ˈəʊlɪˌeɪt) /

any salt or ester of oleic acid, containing the ion C 17 H 33 COO – or the group C 17 H 33 COO-: common components of natural fats

oleate

[ ō′lē-āt′ ]

A salt or ester of oleic acid.

A pharmacopeial preparation consisting of a combination or solution of an alkaloid or metallic base in oleic acid.