Definition of "molybdate" [mo•lyb•date]

• The anion MoO42− (noun)
• Any salt of molybdic acid (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "All of the alternatives offer significant improvements in terms of their environmental impact, although chemicals used in some molybdate formulations are toxic to aquatic life."
• "One analysis indicated that a molybdate-based process would be similar to a hexavalent chromium process in terms of labor and capital, more expensive for chemicals and energy, and less expensive for waste processing."
• "(As an aside, the mineral scheelite (Ca (WO4, MoO4), calcium tungstate-molybdate) was named after Scheele in honor of his discovery of molybdenum.)"