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Definitions: Carbonate |
CarbonateNoun1. A salt or ester of carbonic acid. Verb1. Treat with carbon dioxide; "Carbonated soft drinks". 2. Turn into a carbonate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carbonate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Carbonate \Car"bon*ate\, noun. [Compare to the French expression carbonate.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Geological | A sedimentary rock made mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Limestone and dolomite are common carbonate sedimentary rocks. (references) |
Mining | A. A compound containing the acid radical CO3 of carbonic acid. Bases react with carbonic acid to form carbonates. CF:carbonat b. A mineral compound characterized by a fundamental anionic structure of (CO3 )2- . Calcite and aragonite, CaCO3 , are examples of carbonates. CF:borate; nitrate c. A sediment formed by the organic or inorganic precipitation from aqueous solution of carbonates of calcium, magnesium, or iron; e.g., limestone and dolomite. See also:carbonate rock d. Ores containing a considerable proportion of metal carbonates e.g., limestone and dolomite. See also:carbonate rock d. Ores containing a considerable proportion of metal carbonates. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pungency | Mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning. (condiment); niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Carbonate |
| English words defined with "carbonate": ammonium carbonate ♦ hydrogen carbonate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carbonate": carbonate hardness, carbonate leach, carbonate sand. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "carbonate": Bicarbonate ♦ Carbonatation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Carbonate" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (carbonate). |
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 | An image of sludge. The sludge is composed of copper, zinc and iron bound in a carbonate mixture.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Stromatolites are club-shaped structures formed by a slow buildup of microbial mats trapping ooid sands. These form in high energy channels where migrating sand dunes and chemical precipitation of carbonate cement are dominant seafloor processes.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Bird's eye view of Hailey, Idaho, from Carbonate Hill, July 4th, 1913.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | Some cluster patients can prevent attacks by taking propranolol, methysergide, valproic acid, verapamil, or lithium carbonate. (references) | |
Ingestion of calcium carbonate or calcium acetate with meals is currently recommended for most patients to prevent absorption of phosphorus. (references) | ||
You probably will need to take a phosphate binder like PhosLo, Tums, or calcium carbonate to control the phosphorus in your blood between dialysis sessions. (references) | ||
Economic History | Haiti | Natural resources: Bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble. (references) |
Costa Rica | Only some fillers, like clays, calcium carbonate and some solvents, are found in the local market. (references) | |
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| "Carbonate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carbonate" is used about 478 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 478 | 12,429 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "carbonate": acid sodium carbonate ♦ Aluminum Carbonate ♦ ammonium carbonate ♦ calcium carbonate ♦ Calcium Carbonate and Magnesium Hydroxide ♦ Carbonate Dehydratase ♦ carbonate of lime ♦ carbonate of soda ♦ carbonate rock ♦ hydrogen carbonate ♦ lead carbonate ♦ Lithium Carbonate ♦ potassium carbonate ♦ primary sodium carbonate ♦ sodium acid carbonate ♦ sodium carbonate. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "carbonate": carbonate-based, carbonate-bicarbonate, carbonate-cemented, carbonate-depositing, carbonate-hosted, carbonate-opal, carbonate-rich, carbonate-silica, carbonate-siliciclastic. | |
Ending with "carbonate": bi-carbonate, non-carbonate, poly-carbonate, quartz-carbonate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "carbonate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shndërroj në karbonat, karbonat, gazoj (aerate, gas), djeg (bake, bite, burn, burn down, carbonize, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, grill, gut, incinerate, scald, set on fire, sting), bëj qymyr (carbonize, char). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كربونات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ставам на въглен, карбонат, газирам (aerate, aerify), овъглявам (carbonize, char). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 碳酸盐. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uhlièitan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | carboniseret drik (carbonated beverage, effervescing drink, sparkling drink), carbonat, mousserende drik (carbonated beverage, effervescing drink, sparkling drink), drik med brus (carbonated beverage, effervescing drink, sparkling drink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carbonaat, koolzuurhoudende drank (carbonated beverage, effervescing drink, sparkling drink), karbonaat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kalsiumkarbonaatti (Ca CO3, calcium carbonate, chalk, CI pigment white 18, E170), bariumkarbonaatti (BaCO3, barium carbonate), E 170 (calcium carbonate, chalk, CI pigment white 18, E170), E 500 (E500 sodium carbonates, E500i sodium carbonate, E500ii sodium hydrogen carbonate, E500iii sodium sesquicarbonate), E 501 (E501 potassium carbonates, E501i potassium carbonate, E501ii potassium hydrogen carbonate), E 503 (E503 ammonium carbonates, E503i ammonium carbonate, E503ii ammonium hydrogen carbonate), E 504 (E504 magnesium carbonates, E504i magnesium carbonate, E504ii magnesium hydroxide carbonate, magnesium hydrogen carbonate), ammoniumkarbonaatit (E503 ammonium carbonates, E503i ammonium carbonate, E503ii ammonium hydrogen carbonate), kaliumkarbonaatti (patossium carbonate, pearl ash(rare), potash), sooda (bicarbonate of soda, soda, soda ash, sodium carbonate), karbonaattikivi (carbonate rock), magnesiumkarbonaatit (E504 magnesium carbonates, E504i magnesium carbonate, E504ii magnesium hydroxide carbonate, magnesium hydrogen carbonate), natriumkarbonaatit (E500 sodium carbonates, E500i sodium carbonate, E500ii sodium hydrogen carbonate, E500iii sodium sesquicarbonate), natriumkarbonaatti (soda, soda ash, sodium carbonate), nikkelikarbonaatti (nickel carbonate), potaska (patossium carbonate, pearl ash(rare), potash), kaliumkarbonaatit (E501 potassium carbonates, E501i potassium carbonate, E501ii potassium hydrogen carbonate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carbonate. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | karbonat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανθρακώνω, ανθρακικόσ (carbonic), ανθρακικό άλασ, ανθρακικό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פחמ", תר (natrium, nitre, soda). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karbonát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | karbonat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carbonato (copper carbonate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 炭酸塩 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"さ"え". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 탄산염. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | carbonaid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arbonatecay carbonato. (various references) carbonat. (various references) углекислая соль, соль угольной кислоты, черный алмаз (carbon), карбонат (carbon). (various references) karbonat. (various references) carbonato. (various references) kolsyrad dryck (carbonated beverage, effervescing drink, sparkling drink), karbonat, behandla med kolsyra. (various references) เกลือของกร"คาร์บอน, ที่เติมคาร์บอนไ"ออกไซ"์เข้าไป. (various references) karbonatlamak, karbonata çevirmek, karbonat, kömürleştirmek (carbonize). (various references) карбонат, вуглекисла сіль. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Modern Latin | 1500-Modern | carbonatem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carbonate": carbonated, carbonates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "carbonate": bicarbonate, decarbonate, polycarbonate, sesquicarbonate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "carbonate": bicarbonates, decarbonated, decarbonates, polycarbonates, sesquicarbonates. (additional references) | |
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"Carbonate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caproate, carbamate, carbinate, carbondate, Cargonja. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carbonate" (pronounced kÄ"rbunā't) |
| 4 | -u n ā' t | agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, chlorinate, concatenate, contaminate, culminate, decaffeinate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, detonate, discriminate, disseminate, dominate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, fascinate, fulminate, germinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, illuminate, impersonate, incriminate, indoctrinate, inseminate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, nominate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, predominate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, renominate, resonate, ruminate, subordinate, terminate, titanate, urinate. |
| 3 | -n ā' t | designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: abreact, acrobat, antbear, baronet, bearcat, cabaret, cateran, enactor, reboant. | |
-3 letters: abater, abator, aortae, arcane, atoner, banter, beacon, boater, borane, borate, canter, cantor, carate, carbon, carnet, carton, catena, centra, coater, contra, corban, cornea, cornet, craton, nectar, octane, ornate, rabato, rebato, recant, tanrec, trance. | |
-4 letters: abate, abort, acerb, aceta, acorn, actor, anear, antae, antra, antre. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: abreaction, carbonated, carbonates. | |
+2 letters: abreactions, absorptance, bicarbonate, decarbonate. | |
+3 letters: absorptances, bicarbonates, contrabasses, contrastable, decarbonated, decarbonates, exacerbation, nonbacterial. | |
+4 letters: abortifacient, bacterization, cyanobacteria, decarbonating, decarbonation, exacerbations, polycarbonate, recalibration. | |
+5 letters: abortifacients, bacterizations, constabularies, containerboard, contradictable, corynebacteria, counterbalance, cyanobacterium, decarbonations, enterobacteria, polycarbonates, prefabrication, rebroadcasting, recalibrations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 62 6F 6E 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. -... --- -. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r b o n a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0062 006F 006E 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784688180678671 |
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