CARBONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbonate mean? 

• CARBONATE (noun)
  The noun CARBONATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3)

  Familiarity information: CARBONATE used as a noun is very rare.

• CARBONATE (verb)
  The verb CARBONATE has 2 senses:

1. turn into a carbonate

2. treat with carbon dioxide

  Familiarity information: CARBONATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBONATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("carbonate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carbonate"):

ammonium carbonate (a carbonate of ammonium; used in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder and ammonium compounds)

bicarbonate; hydrogen carbonate (a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate)

potassium carbonate (a white salt (K2CO3) that is basic in solution; used to make glass and cleansing agents)

calcium carbonate (a salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone)

Eskalith; Lithane; lithium carbonate; Lithonate (a white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug; the drug (trade names Lithane or Lithonate or Eskalith) is used to treat some forms of depression and manic episodes of manic-depressive disorder)

magnesium carbonate (a very white crystalline salt that occurs naturally as magnesite or as dolomite)

Derivation:

carbonate (treat with carbon dioxide)

carbonate (turn into a carbonate)

• CARBONATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they carbonate    ... he / she / it carbonates   
Past simple: carbonated   
Past participle: carbonated   
-ing form: carbonating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn into a carbonate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "carbonate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)

carbonate (a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3))

carbonic acid (a weak acid known only in solution; formed when carbon dioxide combines with water)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Treat with carbon dioxide

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Carbonated soft drinks

Hypernyms (to "carbonate" 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:

carbon dioxide (a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis)

carbonate (a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3))

carbonation (saturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water))

 Context examples 

Nickel carbonate is used in electroplating, to prepare nickel monoxide, to make colored glass and as a catalyst in the treatment of wastewater.

(Nickel Carbonate, NCI Thesaurus)

An intravenous formulation containing E.coli-derived L-asparaginase II conjugated with succinimidyl carbonate monomethoxypolyethylene glycol (SC-PEG), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Calaspargase Pegol, NCI Thesaurus)

The carbonate finding further reinforces Ceres' connection with icy worlds in the outer solar system.

(Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area, NASA)

A cholesterol carbonate derivative of 4-demethylpenclomedine (DM-PEN) with potential antineoplastic alkylating activity.

(DM-CHOC-PEN, NCI Thesaurus)

Fermagate is made up of magnesium and ferric iron atoms held in an insoluble, rigid, crystalline-layered structure, with carbonate groups lying between the layers.

(Fermagate, NCI Thesaurus)

A formulation of the 6-omega fatty acid derivative 2'-linoleyl carbonate (LOC) conjugated to paclitaxel, a taxane compound extracted from the Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Linoleyl Carbonate-paclitaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

Lithium salts include lithium carbonate and lithium citrate.

(Lithium, NCI Dictionary)

Lanthanum carbonate dissociates in gastric acid to release lanthanum ions, which then binds dietary phosphate.

(Lanthanum Carbonate, NCI Thesaurus)

The carbonates and clays previously identified on Ceres provide evidence for chemical activity in the presence of water and heat.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)

An orally available, C-4 methyl carbonate analog of paclitaxel with potential antineoplastic activity.

(BMS-275183, NCI Thesaurus)