Fromdigest +-ate(noun-forming suffix).
digestate (pluraldigestates)
- (chemistry) Material that has beendigested, usually usingacid orbiomethanation.
1917 December 1, F.M. Veatch, H.P. Evans, L.E. Jackson, “Sewage Disposal in Kansas”, inBulletin of the University of Kansas, volume18, page68:The sample was digested with sulphuric acid, neutralized, distilled, and Nesslerized. At the same time, tests were run [...] to obtain concordant results by direct Nesslerization of the ammonia formed by the distillation of thedigestate.
1984, James Wiener,Comparative Analyses of Fish Populations in Naturally Acidic and Circumneutral Lakes in Northern Wisconsin, Washington: Environmental Protection Agency,→OCLC, page44:Digestates were quantitatively transferred and diluted to a final volume of 50 ml with 1% HOT. Diluteddigestates of bluegill samples were stored in preleached (Karin et al. 1975) conventional polyethylene bottles (Moody and Lindstrom 1977) prior to analysis.
digestate
- present adverbial passive participle ofdigesti
