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carbonate definition

car·bon·ate (kär′bə nit; also, and for v.always, -nāt′)

noun

  1. a salt of carbonic acid containing the divalent, negative radical CO
  2. an uncharged ester of this acid

Etymology: Fr: see carbon & -ate

transitive verb carbonated -·at′ed, carbonating -·at′·ing

  1. Obsolete to burn to carbon; carbonize
  2. to charge with carbon dioxide carbonated drinks
  3. to form into a carbonate

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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