ethylenediaminetetraacetate

Ethylenediaminetetraacetate: - An extremely long word and also a colorless compound, C10H16N2O8, capable of chelating a variety of divalent metal cations: as a salt used as an anticoagulant, antioxidant, blood cholesterol reducer, food preservative; as a calcium-disodium salt used in the treatment of lead and other heavy-metal poisonings.

ethylenediaminetetraacetate is a salt of EDTA.