Chem. [f. BROM-IC + -ATE4.] A salt of bromic acid.

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a. 1836.  Penny Cycl., V. 461/1. The bromates which their oxides form with bromic acid.

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1854.  Scoffern, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., Chem. 317. Must be either a nitrate … or bromate.

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