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Definition: Sulfate |
SulfateNoun1. A salt or ester of sulphuric acid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: SulfateSynonym: sulphate (n). (additional references) |
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Almost all ionic compoundss with sulfate anions are soluble in water at standard temperature and pressure (the exceptions include CaSO4, SrSO4, and BaSO4).
The acid of the sulfate ion is H2SO4, called sulfuric acid.
Sulfates are important in both chemical industry and biological systems:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sulfate."
Crosswords: Sulfate |
| English words defined with "sulfate": alum, ammonia alum, ammonium alum, amphetamine sulfate, amphetamine sulphate ♦ bitter salts, blue copperas, blue stone, blue vitriol ♦ cadmium yellow, chalcanthite ♦ Epsom salts ♦ Fehling's solution ♦ GI series ♦ kieserite ♦ potash alum, potassium alum ♦ radio-opaque, radiopaque ♦ tranylcypromine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sulfate": hydrazine sulfate ♦ Sulfate Adenylyltransferase, sulfate aerosol, Sulfate aerosols, SULFATE DRIER-MACHINE OPERATOR, sulfate operator, sulfate test. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sulfate": sulphate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sulfate" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (epsom salt, sulfate, sulphate, sulphonic), German (sulfates). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Puerto Ricans weighing copper sulfate for control of bilharzia (schistosomiasis). Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hydroxychloroquine sulfate may be better tolerated than chloroquine. (references) | |
Take hydroxychloroquine sulfate on a full stomach, for example, after dinner, to minimize nausea. (references) | ||
Your child's health care provider will prescribe hydroxychloroquine sulfate based on your child's weight. (references) | ||
Business | Sales in this fringe category have rocketed by almost 30 percent between 1996 and 1998. These products -- which include royal jelly and glucosamine sulfate -- have benefited from fashion trends, such as increased consumer demand for so-called natural supplements. (references) | |
Economic History | Pakistan | Local production of chemicals largely is confined to soda ash, caustic soda, sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate, liquid chlorine, aluminum sulfate, carbon black, acetone and acetic acid. (references) |
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| "Sulfate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sulfate" is used about 14 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% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sulfate": aluminium sodium sulfate ♦ Aluminum Magnesium Hydroxide Sulfate ♦ Ammonium Sulfate ♦ amphetamine sulfate ♦ barium sulfate ♦ butacaine sulfate ♦ Butirosin Sulfate ♦ Calcium Sulfate ♦ Capreomycin Sulfate ♦ chondroitin sulfate ♦ Colistin Sulfate ♦ Copper Sulfate ♦ cupric sulfate ♦ Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate ♦ Dermatan Sulfate ♦ Dextran Sulfate ♦ DHEA Sulfate ♦ Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate ♦ Ferrous Sulfate ♦ Glucosamine Sulfate ♦ Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan ♦ Heparitin Sulfate ♦ hydrazine sulfate ♦ Iron Sulfate ♦ keratan sulfate ♦ lead sulfate ♦ Magnesium Sulfate ♦ Manganese Sulfate ♦ Morphine Sulfate ♦ Phenelzine Sulfate ♦ sodium aluminium sulfate ♦ Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate ♦ sodium lauryl sulfate ♦ sodium sulfate ♦ Sodium Tetradecyl Sulfate ♦ Sulfate Adenylyltransferase ♦ sulfate bubble ♦ sulfate liquor ♦ sulfate pulp ♦ sulfate wood pulp ♦ Tranylcypromine Sulfate ♦ Vanadyl Sulfate ♦ zinc sulfate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sulfate": sulfate-reducing. | |
Ending with "sulfate": Sodium-dodecyl-sulfate. | |
Containing "sulfate": dimethyl-sulfate-piperidine. | |
| 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 "sulfate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كبريتات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сулфат (sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 硫化 (Sulphurize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | síran (sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sulfatlud (sulfate liquor, sulphate liquor), sulfatkarton (sulfate board), sulfatcellulose (sulfate pulp, sulfate wood pulp, sulphate pulp, sulphate wood pulp), sulfatblaere (salt bubble, saltcake seed, sulfate bubble, sulphate blister, sulphate bubble, sulphate scab, white wash, whitewash), sulfat (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate, sulphate), splat (amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, benzedrine, peaches, phenylisopropylamine, splash), speed (amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, bennies, benzedrine, dexies, diet pills, meth, peaches, pep pills, phenylisopropylamine, speed, splash, uppers, wake-ups), sulfatreducerende bakterier (sulfate-reducing bacteria), natriumtetradecylsulfat (sodium tetradecyl sulfate), amfetamin (amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, benzedrine, meth, peaches, phenylisopropylamine, speed, splash), bariumsulfat (barium sulfate), blysulfat (lead sulfate, lead sulphate), dextransulfat (dextran sulfate), glaubersalt (Glauber's salt, saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate, sulphate), jernsulfat (iron sulfate, iron sulphate, sulphate of iron), kaliumsulfat (potassium sulphate, sulfate of potash), almadratsulfat (almadrate sulfate), natriumsulfat (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate, sulphate), morphinsulfat (morphine sulfate, morphine sulphate, Moscontin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sulfaatloog (sulfate liquor, sulphate liquor), sulfaatkarton (sulfate board), sulfaatcelstof (sulfate pulp, sulfate wood pulp, sulphate pulp, sulphate wood pulp), sulfaatcellulose (sulfate pulp, sulfate wood pulp, sulphate pulp, sulphate wood pulp), sulfaatbel (salt bubble, saltcake seed, sulfate bubble, sulphate blister, sulphate bubble, sulphate scab, white wash, whitewash), sulfaat (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate, sulphate), natriumtetradecylsulfaat (sodium tetradecyl sulfate), bariumsulfaat (barium meal, barium sulfate), benzedrine (amphetamine sulfate, benzedrine, peaches), dextraan sulfaat (dextran sulfate), ijzersulfaat (iron sulfate, iron sulphate, sulphate of iron), kaliumsulfaat (potassium sulphate, sulfate of potash), loodsulfaat (lead sulfate, lead sulphate), Moscotin (morphine sulfate, morphine sulphate, Moscontin), almadraatsulfaat (almadrate sulfate), natriumsulfaat (Glauber's salt, saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate, sulphate), zwavelzure potas (potassium sulphate, sulfate of potash), zoutbel (salt bubble, saltcake seed, sulfate bubble, sulphate blister, sulphate bubble, sulphate scab, white wash, whitewash), natriumaluin (alum, aluminium sodium sulfate, porous, soda alum, sodium alum, sodium aluminium sulfate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sulfaatti (sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sulfate (sulphate, sulphonic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sulfat (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate, sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θειικό άλασ (sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szulfát (sulphate, vitriol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solforare (sulfurate, sulfurize, sulphate, sulphurate, sulphurise, sulphurize), solfato (sulphate), solfatizzarsi (sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 舎利塩 (Epsom salts, magnesium sulfate), "礬 (white vitriol, zinc sulfate heptahydrate), 硫酸銅 (copper sulfate), 硫安 (ammonium sulfate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃりえ" (Epsom salts, magnesium sulfate), "うば" (knocked out, leave the mound, police box, steel plate, steel sheet, white vitriol, zinc sulfate heptahydrate), りゅうさ"どう (copper sulfate), りゅうあ" (ammonium sulfate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 황산염 (sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulfatesay sulfato (sulphate). (various references) сульфат (sulphate). (various references) sulfat (sulphate). (various references) sulfato (sulphate). (various references) sulfatmassa (sulfate pulp, sulfate wood pulp, sulphate pulp, sulphate wood pulp), sulfatkokvätska (sulfate liquor, sulphate liquor), sulfatkartong (sulfate board), sulfatblåsa (salt bubble, saltcake seed, sulfate bubble, sulphate blister, sulphate bubble, sulphate scab, white wash, whitewash), sodiumalun (alum, aluminium sodium sulfate, porous, soda alum, sodium alum, sodium aluminium sulfate), saltblåsa (salt bubble, saltcake seed, sulfate bubble, sulphate blister, sulphate bubble, sulphate scab, white wash, whitewash), natriumtetradecylsulfat (sodium tetradecyl sulfate), dextransulfat (dextran sulfate), blysulfat (lead sulfate, lead sulphate), bariumsulfat (barium sulfate), almadratsulfat (almadrate sulfate). (various references) ใส่เกลือซัลเฟต, เกลือซัลเฟตหรือเกลือของกร"กำมะถัน, กลายเป็นเกลือซัลเฟต. (various references) sülfat (sulphate). (various references) сульфат (sulphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sulfate": sulfated, sulfates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sulfate": bisulfate, thiosulfate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sulfate": bisulfates, thiosulfates. (additional references) | |
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"Sulfate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slfite, solmate, sulfit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sulfate" (pronounced su"lfā't) |
| 6 | s u" l f ā' t | sulphate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: faults, festal, flatus, flutes, salute. | |
-2 letters: alefs, false, fates, fault, feast, feats, felts, fetal, fetas, fetus, flats, fleas, flues, flute, fuels, fusel, leafs, least, lefts, lutea, lutes, sault, saute, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, sulfa, taels, tales, talus, teals, tesla, tufas, tules. | |
-3 letters: alef, ales, alts, ates, east, eats, efts, etas, fast, fate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: defaults, feastful, fistulae, flatuses, hasteful, refutals, stageful, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, tasteful, wasteful. | |
+2 letters: affluents, awfullest, basketful, bisulfate, faculties, faultiest, faultless, fauteuils, feudalist, filatures, flameouts, flashtube, flaunters, fluxgates, masterful, outfables, platefuls, platesful, stagefuls, sufflated, sufflates, sulfatase, sulfonate, tablefuls, tablesful, ultrasafe. | |
+3 letters: afflatuses, artfulness, basketfuls, basketsful, bisulfates, defaulters, faultiness, feudalists, flashtubes, flauntiest, fluctuates, formulates, fulgurates, fulminates, insufflate, satchelful, sulfatases, sulfonated, sulfonates, tastefully, teacupfuls, teacupsful, wastefully. | |
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