carbonate Definition
car·bon·ate (kär′bə nit; also, and for v.always, -nāt′)
noun
- a salt of carbonic acid containing the divalent, negative radical CO
- an uncharged ester of this acid
transitive verb -·at′ed, -·at′·ing
- Obsolete to burn to carbon; carbonize
- to charge with carbon dioxide carbonated drinks
- to form into a carbonate
carbonate Usage Examples
Object
- beverage: Typical products include wine, citrus dessert mixes, sweets, jelly, jams, carbonated beverages.
- drink: However, a number of carbonated soft drinks in cans sold in the UK are not actually filled in the UK.
Converse of object
- precipitate: Also being launched on Stand 3344 will be the latest surface activated precipitated calcium carbonate from Longcliffe.
- dissolve: Surface water carrying dissolved calcium carbonate has cemented these angular fragments together in many places forming a breccia.
Modifies a noun
- biominerals: I am interested in both the environmental and biological controls on trace element distribution in calcium carbonate biominerals.
- hardness: If the carbonate hardness is low, a small amount of new acid will make a large change to the body's pH.
- ion: For the sake of argument, suppose that the carbonate ion radius was 0.3 nm.
- sediment: This means that carbonate sediments are only found in shallow ocean basins.
- reservoir: We are also actively involved in a series of proprietary studies of carbonate reservoirs in Western Canada, Kazakhstan, Tunisia and offshore India.
- cement: It has a carbonate cement which means that it has subtly different lichen cover to the Pipe Rock.
Modifying Another Word
artificially: It is artificially carbonated, pasteurized, served under gas pressure.
Noun used with modifier
- calcium: Fresh deposits of calcium carbonate give the pools a dazzling white coating.
- sodium: With sodium carbonate, the full equation is: .
- magnesium: Magnesium carbonate can cause belching due to carbon dioxide being liberated from the compound in the stomach.
- ammonium: One grower sprayed with copper ammonium carbonate against the disease.
- lithium: Lithium carbonate is sometimes prescribed to people with severe depression.
- barium: Barium carbonate is slightly more soluble than strontium sulfate.
Preposition: of
- lime: Beautiful stalactites of selenite, resembling in form those of carbonate of lime, are formed near these beds.
- soda: Add carbonate of soda, beat the cake well for another five minutes.
- copper: Traces of carbonate of copper are also occasionally to be met with in the trap rocks of Seidlaw, but to no great extent.
Browse dictionary entries near carbonate
- ‹ Carbonari
- ‹ carbonara
- ‹ carbonado
- ‹ carbonaceous
- ‹ carbon tetrachloride
- ‹ carbon process
- ‹ carbon paper
- ‹ carbon monoxide
- ‹ carbon fiber
- ‹ carbon disulfide
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