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Sulphate

Definition: Sulphate

Sulphate

Noun

1. A salt or ester of sulphuric acid.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sulphate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Etymology: Sulphate \Sul"phate\, noun. [New Latin expression. sulphas, sulphatis, from the Latin expression sulphur, sulfur, brimstone, sulphur: compare to the French expression sulfate.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Sulphate

Synonym: sulfate (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sulphate

English words defined with "sulphate": Acid salt, alum, Alum slate, Aluminous slate, Alunogen, Anglesite, Anhydrite ♦ -ate ♦ atomic number 16, Atramentarious ♦ Bisulphate, Bitter salt, black alkali, Bloedite, Blue jack, Bologna stone, Bordeaux mixture, Botryogen, Brochantite ♦ Caledonite, celestite, Chrome alum, Copperas, Coquimbite, Cyanosite ♦ Deacon's process, Double salt ♦ Epsomite, Ethylsulphuric acid ♦ Feather alum, ferrocyanide, fradicin, From battery ♦ Green vitriol, gypsum ♦ Hauynite, Herapathite, Hydric sulphate ♦ Indican ♦ Jarosite ♦ kainite ♦ Lanarkite, langbeinite, Leadhillite, Leblanc's process, Linarite ♦ Mascagnite, Mauve aniline, Melanterite, Mirabilite, Misy, Monsel's salt ♦ Neobiotic, neomycin ♦ Out of battery, Oxysalt ♦ Permanent white, Persulphate, plaster, Plaster of Paris, Polychrest salt ♦ Queen's yellow ♦ Red vitriol ♦ s, Sal enixum, Sal Martis, Sal vitrioli, Salt cake, Salt of colcothar, Salt of Venus, Soda alum, Soda salts, Subsulphate, sulfur, Sulphatic, Sulphato-, sulphur, Super-, Supersulphate ♦ tellurium acids, Thenardite, Turpeth ♦ Uranoso- ♦ Vallet's pills, Venetian red, Vitriol of Mars, Vitriolate, Vitriolated ♦ Water of crystallization, Websterite, White copperas ♦ Yellow copperas ♦ Zinc vitriol. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sulphate": baryta paper, baryta-coated paper, Bauholz, Burgundy mixture ♦ copper sulphide ♦ electrode potential ♦ Glauber Salts ♦ jet rings ♦ liquid rosin ♦ manganese blue, metallurgical cement ♦ Nutzholz ♦ oxidising ♦ salt bubble, saltcake seed, sulfatation, sulfate bubble, sulfate liquor, sulfating, sulphatation, sulphate blister, sulphate bubble, sulphate liquor, sulphate scab, sulphating, sulphur stain, supersulphated cement ♦ weston normal cell, white wash ♦ Zimmerholz. (references)
Etymologies containing "sulphate": Disulphate. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sulphate

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Soda and Sulphate Chemical Wood Pulp in Indonesia (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Soda and Sulphate Chemical Wood Pulp Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Soda and Sulphate Chemical Wood Pulp Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Soda and Sulphate Chemical Wood Pulp: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Soda and Sulphate Chemical Wood Pulp in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Sulphate

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Coal tar 50,000 tons Sulphate of ammonia 30,000 tons. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sulphate

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

MEXICO

Products subject to these duties are listed in the March 2, 2001, edition of the Diario Oficial (Mexico's equivalent of the Federal Register) and include pork, beef, apples, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), liquid soda, hydrogen peroxide, ammoniac sulphate, gasoline additives, cristal polysterene, polycloride (PVC), bonded paper, corrugated rods, and unfinished steel tubes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sulphate

"Sulphate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sulphate" is used about 398 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%39814,032

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sulphate

Expressions using "sulphate": aluminium sulphate ♦ aluminum sulphate ♦ ammonium aluminium sulphate ♦ ammonium sulphate ♦ amphetamine sulphate ♦ barium sulphate ♦ calcium sulphate ♦ copper sulphate ♦ cupric sulphate ♦ dextroamphetamine sulphate ♦ ferric ammonium sulphate ♦ ferrous sulphate ♦ Hydric sulphate ♦ lead sulphate ♦ Magnesium sulphate ♦ sodium lauryl sulphate ♦ sodium sulphate ♦ sulphate blister ♦ sulphate bubble ♦ sulphate liquor ♦ sulphate of copper ♦ sulphate of iron ♦ sulphate pulp ♦ sulphate scab ♦ sulphate wood pulp ♦ zinc sulphate. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sulphate": sulphate-fuelled, sulphate-grown, sulphate-reducing, sulphate-resistant, sulphate-snorting.

Ending with "sulphate": copper-sulphate.

Containing "sulphate": heparan-sulphate-proteoglycan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sulphate

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

glucosamine sulphate

114

growth manganese plant sulphate

5

copper sulphate

34

sodium laurel sulphate

5

sulphate

23

contraindications glucosamine sulphate

4

abacavir sulphate

22

amphetamine sulphate

4

zinc sulphate

20

glucosamine sulphate properties

4

magnesium sulphate

18

vanadyl sulphate

4

ferrous sulphate

14

glucosamine chondroitin sulphate

3

morphine sulphate

12

sodium sulphate tetradecyl

3

sodium lauryl sulphate

10

barium sulphate

3

calcium sulphate

10

strychnine sulphate

3

aluminum sulphate

9

copper formula sulphate

3

laureth sodium sulphate

9

potassium sulphate

3

hydrazine sulphate

8

nickel sulphate

3

acid soil sulphate

8

manganese sulphate

3

sodium sulphate

7

copper pool sulphate

3

iron sulphate

7

ferric sulphate

3

chondroitin sulphate

7

chondroitin collagen sulphate

2

alkyl ethoxy sodium sulphate

6

atropine sulphate

2

quinine sulphate

5

glucosamine sulphate uk

2

ammonium sulphate

5

fungicide magnesium sulphate

2

inorganic manganese salt sulphate

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sulphate

Language Translations for "sulphate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sulfat (vitriol, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سلفانيلاميدي متعلق بعقار السلفا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сулфат (sulfate). (various references)

   

Czech

  

sulfát, síran (sulfate). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sulfatere, sulfat (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate), natriumsulfat (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate), glaubersalt (Glauber's salt, saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sulfateren, sulfaat (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate), natriumsulfaat (Glauber's salt, saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sulfaatti (sulfate). (various references)

   

French

  

sulfate (sulfate, sulphonic). (various references)

   

German

  

schwefelsaures Salz. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σουλφάτ (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate), θειώνω, θειικό άλασ (sulfate), θειικό αλάτι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

'ופר", 'פר", סולפט. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szulfát (sulfate, vitriol), kénsav (oil of vitriol, sulfuric acid, vitriol). (various references)

   

Italian

  

solfato (sulfate). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

황산염 (sulfate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sulfait. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulphatesay

   

Portuguese

  

sulfato (sulfate). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sulfat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сульфат (sulfate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sulfat (sulfate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sulfato sódico (saltcake, sodium sulfate, sodium sulphate), sulfato (sulfate), sulfatar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sulfat. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sülfatlamak, sülfat (sulfate). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сульфат (sulfate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Sulphate

Derivations

Words beginning with "sulphate": sulphated, sulphates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sulphate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sulphate" (pronounced su"lfā't)
6s u" l f ā' tsulfate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sulphate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: pulsate.

-2 letters: alephs, halest, haslet, hustle, lathes, lehuas, letups, palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, salute, septal, shelta, sleuth, spathe, staple, sulpha, taupes, tepals.

-3 letters: aleph, ephas, haets, hales, halts, haste, hates, hauls, haute, heals, heaps, heats, helps, hulas, lapse, lathe, laths, leaps, leapt, leash, least, lehua, lepta, letup, lutea, lutes, pales, palet.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: sulphated, sulphates.

 

+2 letters: houseplant, multiphase, spathulate.

 

+3 letters: houseplants, patchoulies.

 

+4 letters: exophthalmus, laureateship, polyanthuses, preslaughter, prothalluses, purplehearts, superathlete, thunderclaps.

 

+5 letters: autocephalies, autocephalous, claustrophobe, epithalamiums, laureateships, leptocephalus, polyurethanes, superathletes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Quotations: Historic
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions 		9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes 		13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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