Chem. [f. next + -ATE.] A salt in which aldehyde acts as a monobasic acid.

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1863.  Watts, Dict. Chem. (1879), I. 111. Aldehydate of silver … Aldehydate of Ammonium, Aldehyde-ammonia, or Acetyl Ammonium C2H3O.NH4.

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