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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 -·at′ed, -·at′·ing

  1. Obsolete to burn to carbon; carbonize
  2. to charge with carbon dioxide carbonated drinks
  3. 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.