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Definition of Carbonates
1. carbonate [v] - See also: carbonate
Medical Definition of Carbonates
1. Salts or ions of the theoretical carbonic acid, containing the radical co2(3-). Carbonates are readily decomposed by acids. The carbonates of the alkali metals are water-soluble; all others are insoluble. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbonates
Literary usage of Carbonates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The result is the weight of the mixed sulphates, due to the carbonates and hydrates
of potassium and soda in the solution. Calculate the total acid required ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Carbonates of organic alkalis are for the most part soluble in water and in alcohol
... Most carbonates are easily decomposed by heat. The carbonates of the ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1833)
"SECTION V. Carbonates. THE carbonates are distinguished from other salts by being
decomposed with effervescence, owing to the escape of carbonic acid gas, ..."
4. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1859)
"As regards the separation of carbonates of iron and magnesia, especially from
water containing these carbonates together with carbonate of lime, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"On the Solvent Power of Strong ami Weal: Solutions of the Alkaline Carbonates on
Uric Acid Calculi. By WILLIAM ROBERTS, BA, MD Lond., Physician to the ..."
6. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"HYDRATES AND Carbonates OF THE ALKALIES. The hydrates and carbonates of ...
The carbonates and bicarbonates dissociate into K- or Na-ions and —COj, ..."
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