Chem. [f. ANTI-MON-Y + -ATE4.] A salt of Antimonic acid. (This is the form used by Watts, and is analogous to selenate, chromate; ANTIMONIATE is preferred by many chemists.)
1854. Scoffern, in Orr’s Circ. Sc. Chem., 471. Two antimonates of potash are known.
1863. Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 325. The antimonates and metantimonates of the alkali-metals.
