CARBONATE
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. treat with carbon dioxide
2. turn into a carbonate
Familiarity information: CARBONATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CARBONATE (noun)
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)
• CARBONATE (verb)
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
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
