benzoate

Other forms: benzoates

Definitions of benzoate
  1. noun
    any salt or ester of benzoic acid
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    types:
    benzoate of soda, sodium benzoate
    a white crystalline salt used as a food preservative and antiseptic
    type of:
    salt
    a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
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