Chem. [f. TITAN-IC a.2 + -ATE4.] A salt of titanic acid.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 1254. By calcination with nitre, it [titanium] … forms titanate of potassa.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 11), 429. The titanates have not been much studied.
Hence Titanation: see quot.
1904. Van Hise, in U.S. Geol. Surv., Monogr., XLVII. 205. Titanation is the union of titanic acid with base, or the substitution of titanic acid for another combined acid, in either case producing titanates.
