Chem. [f. ACET-IC + -ATE4.] A salt formed by the combination of acetic acid with an alkaline, earthy, or metallic base; as Acetate of lead, called also Sugar of lead.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., § 10. 253. Nitrate of mercury, acetate of lead.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 94. Marsh gas may … be artificially prepared by heating sodium acetate.
1872. Williamson, Chem., § 278. The metallic acetates are, for the most part, very soluble in water.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med., 143. Acetate of potash was known in the 13th cent., and probably earlier.
