variants:
or sodium wolframate
Definition of sodium tungstate
: a tungstate of sodium especially : the normal salt Na2WO4 that commonly crystallizes with two molecules of water, is usually obtained during the extraction of tungsten from its ores, and is used chiefly in making other tungsten compounds and in fireproofing textiles
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