carbonates
- present tense form of carbonate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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This makes it acidic, and the carbonates transform to CO2.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2024
Mars’s warmer, wetter past makes it the second-best place in the solar system to find carbonates.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023
"Overall, in this form of carbon sequestration, one out of every sixteen photosynthetically fixed carbon atoms might be sequestered into carbonates," the authors write.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
We capture carbon using a process called aqueous mineralization, where an alkaline solution is exposed to atmosphere, causing the formation of carbonates.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
Like Venus, the Earth also has about 90 atmospheres of carbon dioxide; but it resides in the crust as limestone and other carbonates, not in the atmosphere.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
