thiolate
noun
thiolate is a noun meaning “Any derivative of a thiol in which a metal atom replaces the hydrogen attached to sulfur RSH => RS⁻M⁺” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-L-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thiolate is thiolates.
What does thiolate mean?
noun
- 1
Any derivative of a thiol in which a metal atom replaces the hydrogen attached to sulfur RSH => RS⁻M⁺.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thiolate
- thiolates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thiolate?
Thiolate appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does thiolate come from?
From thiol + -ate (“derivative”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).