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Carbonate   /kˈɑrbənˌeɪt/   Listen
Carbonate

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



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... addition to this, crystals of mineral matter, having various shapes and sizes, are often found in the interior of cells. The most common of these interior cell crystals are those composed of calcium oxalate and calcium carbonate. Others composed of calcium phosphate, calcium sulphate and silica are sometimes found. These crystals may occur singly or in clusters of greater or less size. In shape they are prismatic ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... cakes in which baking powder, carbonate of soda, cream of tartar or tartaric acid are used, almost everything depends upon the handling, which should be as light and as little as possible. The more rapidly such cakes are made the better they will be. Two cooks working from the same recipe ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil

... that calcium is a vital soil nutrient as essential to the formation of plant and animal proteins as nitrogen. Soils deficient in calcium can be inexpensively improved by adding agricultural lime which is relatively pure calcium carbonate (CaC03). The use of agricultural lime or dolomitic lime in compost piles is somewhat controversial. Even the most authoritative of authorities disagree. There is no disputing that the calcium content of plant material and animal manure resulting from that plant ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... "Carbonate of lime, or chalk, which is caused by lime water coming from above and trickling down through to openings or crevices, and leaving the deposits there. It is not an uncommon thing in caves, and I foreshadowed it in the cave ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay

... the surface through deep-lying cretaceous strata, and contains a great deposit of calcareous material. As the water flows out at the various elevations on the terraces through many vents, it forms corrugated layers of carbonate of lime, which is generally hard while wet, but becomes soft when dry. While these springs are active, vegetation dies in their vicinity; but when dry, grass and trees again grow on ...
— Shepp's Photographs of the World • James W. Shepp

... patient, as the phrase is, for all he was worth, and gave him visible medicine out of good old saddle-bags—how much faith we used to have in those saddle-bags—and not a prescription in a dead language to be put up by a dead-head clerk who occasionally mistakes arsenic for carbonate of soda. I do not mean, however, to say there is no sense in the retention of the hieroglyphics which the doctors use to communicate their ideas to a druggist, for I had a prescription made in Hartford put up in Naples, and that could not have happened if it had been written ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... changed into a protochloride, and as at the negative pole an alkaline reaction takes place, the iron salt is precipitated in the form of the ferrous hydrated oxide, together with the organic matters in suspension and solution. Owing to the carbonates that are always present in sewage, ferrous carbonate ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 • Various

... or oxidizing agents. The most important are carbonate of soda, potash, and cyanide of potassium. Limestone is used ...
— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

... rash is better left untouched. The treatment to the spine may be continued daily. If the rash has been irritated into running, scabby scores by scratching, it may be cleaned with weak vinegar. A little cream of tartar or powdered rhubarb and carbonate of soda mixed in equal parts may be taken internally after meals—say about one-fourth of a teaspoonful in a little water. If this quantity exercise too great a cooling effect, smaller doses will produce very good results. Kneipp Linen Underwear will in many cases of such skin ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... is a process for the preparation of a black dye, for which a patent was taken out at Vienna by M. Honig:—Logwood is to be boiled several times in water, and a little sub-carbonate of potash to be added to the decoctions, the quantity being so moderated that it shall not change the colour to blue; the stuff to be dyed is then to be plunged into this bath. This stuff may be either animal or vegetable. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 • Various

... castor sugar. 3oz. of butter. pint of milk. 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, or oz. of cream of tartar, and 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. ...
— The Skilful Cook - A Practical Manual of Modern Experience • Mary Harrison

... paper in an aqueous solution of sulphate of copper and carbonate of ammonia and then added alkaline solutions of ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho



Words linked to "Carbonate" :   lithium carbonate, Lithane, carbon, Lithonate, treat, carbonation, carbonic acid, Eskalith, salt, process, change, potassium hydrogen carbonate, carbon dioxide



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