Crossword-Solution: CITRATES 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

These berries furnish a fragrant oil, the _essence de petit grain_, and contain citrates, and malates of lime and potash, with "hesperidin," sulphur, and mineral salts.

Now, neutral tartrates, citrates, and acetates of the alkalis are found, in their passage through the system, to be changed into carbonates; and to convert a tartrate into a carbonate requires an additional quantity of oxygen, the abstraction of which must lessen the oxygen destined for assimilation with the blood, on the quantity of which the vigorous action of the human system partly depends.

The citrates are a numerous class of salts, the most soluble of which are those of the alkaline metals; the citrates of the alkaline earth metals are insoluble.

Citric acid, being tribasic, forms either acid monometallic, acid dimetallic or neutral trimetallic salts; thus, mono-, di- and tri-potassium and sodium citrates are known.

Several of the citrates are much employed as medicines, the most important being the scale preparations of iron.