carbonate
a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
to form into a carbonate.
to charge or impregnate with carbon dioxide: carbonated drinks.
to make sprightly; enliven.
Origin of carbonate
1Other words from carbonate
- car·bon·a·tor, noun
- non·car·bo·nate, noun
- non·car·bo·nat·ed, adjective
- sem·i·car·bon·ate, adjective
- un·car·bon·at·ed, adjective
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How to use carbonate in a sentence
The other four varieties have slightly different makeups, such as dirt that is particularly rich in carbonates or sulfates.
Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem | Maria Temming | November 18, 2020 | Science NewsIce containing sodium chloride, also known as table salt, or sodium carbonate appeared dimmer than pure water ice.
As the ice melted, it likely seeped into surface fissures and trickled through the pre-Bennu body, dropping carbonates as it went.
Local asteroid Bennu used to be filled with tiny rivers | Charlie Wood | October 8, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe reaction with carbon dioxide mainly produces magnesium carbonate minerals like magnesite, a stable material that could lock away the greenhouse gas for millennia.
Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change (you read that right) | James Temple | October 6, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewSure, you could pour your own G&T into a bottle and hike it up the trail, but by the time you get to the top, you might have a carbonated explosion in your pack.
A bag of syrup in a box meets carbonated (or non-carbonated water) to produce a drink on demand.
They mixed carbonated water with syrups, and fused them together seamlessly in a frothy cold stream – all on demand.
But nowadays the Scots swear by “Irn-Bru,” a carbonated orange beverage, to revive them after a big night out.
The Wildest Hangover Cures From Around the World | Nina Strochlic | November 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe carbonated-water maker made an ad that attacked Coke and Pepsi.
How SodaStream Took on the Super Bowl—and Lost, Then Won | Daniel Gross | February 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course, the company and its agency have been making a carbonated lemonade out of this lemon.
How SodaStream Took on the Super Bowl—and Lost, Then Won | Daniel Gross | February 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe next day, he and Bill Myers got a bottle of carbonated water and mixed themselves a couple of drinks of it.
Hunter Patrol | Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuireThe alkalies are soluble in water, even when carbonated; a property which distinguishes them from the alkaline earths.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreIn the neighbourhood of Belturbet, near the small lake of Annagh, is a carbonated chalybeate spring.
The quick-lime may be slaked, and carbonated after reaching its destination, either before or after being applied to the land.
The Elements of Agriculture | George E. WaringIt melts in boiling water, and dissolves in alcohol and oil of turpentine, as well as in carbonated or caustic alkaline lyes.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure
British Dictionary definitions for carbonate
a salt or ester of carbonic acid. Carbonate salts contain the divalent ion CO 3 2–
to form or turn into a carbonate
(tr) to treat with carbon dioxide or carbonic acid, as in the manufacture of soft drinks
Origin of carbonate
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Scientific definitions for carbonate
[ kär′bə-nāt′ ]
A salt or ester of carbonic acid, containing the group CO3. The reaction of carbonic acid with a metal results in a salt (such as sodium carbonate), and the reaction of carbonic acid with an organic compound results in an ester (such as diethyl carbonate).
Any other compound containing the group CO3. Carbonates include minerals such as calcite and aragonite.
Sediment or a sedimentary rock formed by the precipitation of organic or inorganic carbon from an aqueous solution of carbonates of calcium, magnesium, or iron. Limestone is a carbonate rock.
To add carbon dioxide to a substance, such as a beverage.
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