carbonate
[noun kahr-buh-neyt, -nit; verb kahr-buh-neyt]
- a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
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- to form into a carbonate.
- to charge or impregnate with carbon dioxide: carbonated drinks.
- to make sprightly; enliven.
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Origin of carbonate
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Contemporary Examples
But nowadays the Scots swear by “Irn-Bru,” a carbonated orange beverage, to revive them after a big night out.
Of course, the company and its agency have been making a carbonated lemonade out of this lemon.
Watch as two animals from opposite ends of the world unite in the name of Christmas and carbonated beverages.
This time, Louise looks into the camera as her kids carry gallons of carbonated beverages into the house.
Historical Examples
Swinging loosely in the other hand was a carbonated water siphon.
Good ReferencesE. J. Rath
Sixty francs for a quart of carbonated bilge and a racket like nothing on earth.
CommandWilliam McFee
Just before serving, add the carbonated water, which lends a sparkling appearance and a snappy taste to a beverage of this kind.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Cracked ice, strong coffee, and carbonated water in small quantities are valuable in allaying thirst and nausea.
The commercial annotta is dissolved in an alkaline solution, either caustic or carbonated, and then precipitated by an acid.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
carbonate
- a salt or ester of carbonic acid. Carbonate salts contain the divalent ion CO 3 2–
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- to form or turn into a carbonate
- (tr) to treat with carbon dioxide or carbonic acid, as in the manufacture of soft drinks
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Word Origin
C18: from French, from carbone carbon
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Word Origin and History for carbonated
adj.
"containing carbon dioxide," 1858, past participle adjective from carbonate (v.).
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carbonate
v.
1805, "to form into a carbonate," from carbonate (n.) by influence of French carbonater "transform into a carbonate." Meaning "to impregnate with carbonic acid gas (i.e. carbon dioxide)" is from 1850s. Related: Carbonated; carbonating.
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carbonate
n.
1794, from French carbonate "salt of carbonic acid" (Lavoisier), from Modern Latin carbonatem "a carbonated (substance)," from Latin carbo (see carbon).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
carbonate
(kär′bə-nāt′)- A salt or ester of carbonic acid.
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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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.
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- To add carbon dioxide to a substance, such as a beverage.
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