Definition of Sulphate

1. Noun. A salt or ester of sulphuric acid.


Definition of Sulphate

1. n. A salt of sulphuric acid.

Definition of Sulphate

1. Noun. (British chemistry) (alternative spelling of sulfate) ¹

2. Verb. (British chemistry) (alternative spelling of sulfate) ¹

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Definition of Sulphate

1. to sulfate [v -PHATED, -PHATING, -PHATES] - See also: sulfate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sulphate

sulphanilic acid
sulphantimonate
sulphantimonates
sulphantimonite
sulphantimonites
sulphapyridine
sulpharsenate
sulpharsenates
sulpharsenic acid
sulpharsenious acid
sulpharsenite
sulpharsenites
sulphas
sulphatase
sulphatases
sulphate (current term)
sulphate of soda
sulphated
sulphates
sulphathiazole
sulphathiazoles
sulphatian
sulphatic
sulphatide
sulphatides
sulphating
sulphation
sulphaurate
sulphaurates
sulphenamide

Literary usage of Sulphate

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)
"Silica will be carried down with the barium sulphate precipitate if present in ... GRAVIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF SULPHUR Precipitation as Barium sulphate ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Silica will be carried down with the barium sulphate precipitate if present in ... GRAVIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF SULPHUR Precipitation as Barium sulphate ..."

3. The Analyst (1879)
"In Fownes' Manual of Chemistry, 12th Ed., 1877, page 424, it is stated that water decomposes the (mercuric) sulphate, dissolving out an acid salt and ..."

4. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1904)
"Sodium sulphate, therefore, forms only one stable hydrate, the decahydrate. ... Further, the behaviour of sodium sulphate and water furnishes a very good ..."

5. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1908)
"Sodium sulphate, therefore, forms only one stable hydrate, the decahydrate. The solubility relations of sodium sulphate illustrate very clearly the ..."

6. The Analyst by Society of Public Analysts (Great Britain). (1880)
"These statements in reference to the action of water upon neutral mercuric sulphate appear to have been copied into most works on chemistry of later date. ..."

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