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©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Acrylates are salts, esters, and conjugate bases of acrylic acid. The acrylate ion is the anion CH2=CHCOO−
The term acrylate refers to a chemical group consisting of a carbon–carbon double bond bonded to an ester functional group –COOR (where R is the rest of the molecule not included in the functional group).