(zăn′thāt′) A salt or ester of a xanthic acid, especially a simple xanthic acid salt, as of sodium or potassium, used as a flotation collector for copper, silver, and gold.
What is Xanthate chemistry?
Xanthate, any of a class of organic salts formed by treatment of an alcohol with carbon disulfide in the presence of an alkali.
What does Xanthate mean?
Xanthate usually refers to a salt with the formula ROCS −2M + (R = alkyl; M+ = Na+, K+), thus O-esters of dithiocarbonate. The name xanthates is derived from Greek ξανθός xanthos, meaning “yellowish, golden”, and indeed most xanthate salts are yellow.
