Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
A citrate is a derivative of citric acid; that is the salts esters and the polyatomic anion found in solution. An example of the former a salt is trisodium citrate; an ester is triethyl citrate. When part of a salt the formula of the citrate ion is written as C6H5O73− or C3H5O(COO)33−.
