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AMMONIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ammoniate mean?
• AMMONIATE (verb)
The verb AMMONIATE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: AMMONIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: ammoniated
Past participle: ammoniated
-ing form: ammoniating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treat with ammonia
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "ammoniate" is one way to...):
process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
ammonia (a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3))
ammonia (a water solution of ammonia)
Context examples
The surface of Ceres contains ammoniated phyllosilicates, or clays containing ammonia.
(Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area, NASA)
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