0 a chemical substance made from acetic acid, or a smooth artificial cloth made from this
1 a thin piece of clear plastic with writing or drawing on it that you can show on a wall or screen using an overhead projector:
He was busy preparing acetates for his presentation.
In order to obtain information about the shape and dimensions of the laser-produced craters, their replicas were made of cellulose acetate.
Further, the percent carbon-13 in acetate decreased with time in spite of the increase in the percent carbon-13 in glucose.
Included in this group are chloroform and related substances such as chlorinated acetates, many of which are listed as suspected human carcinogens.
One of the progestagens-megestrol acetate-has been tried under this type of circumstance; it has proven reasonably successful.
In the third model the formates are replaced by acetates.
The fibrils were negatively stained with uranyl acetate.
Sections were stained with lead citrate and uranyl acetate.
The sections were stained with 2% uranyl acetate in 50% ethanol and 0.4% lead citrate solutions for 10 min each.