carbonate
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈkɑːrbəneɪt/
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carbonato
- Many marine organisms, like corals, rely on carbonate to build their structures.
- calcium carbonate
- sodium carbonate
- carbonate minerals
Because wood ash is in fact primarily a mixture of calcium carbonate and potassium carbonate.
- Because wood ash is in fact primarily a mixture of calcium carbonate and potassium carbonate.
- This is a flask which contains marble chips, marble chips, that's calcium carbonate.
- The the, the biggest use for calcium carbonate today is cement, and we have lots of it around.
- Now, the type of calcium you don't want to be taking typically is calcium carbonate.
- It it, you know, leaves its residue of calcium carbonate, I think behind on the thing rather than graphite, rather than ink.
Examples
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Instead, FuelCell Energy will be installing a molten carbonate fuel cell stack power plant.
Academic text (2003) -
Marble is a metamorphic rock formed by the recrystallization of sedimentary carbonate rocks, such as limestone.
Academic text (2007) -
Not a big change to more than half the carbonate ion concentration.
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Lithium hydroxide plus carbon dioxide makes lithium carbonate plus water plus heat.
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Because wood ash is in fact primarily a mixture of calcium carbonate and potassium carbonate.
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A number of trace elements in seawater can substitute for calcium in the calcium carbonate matrix.
Academic text (2008) -
These are little nanostructured plates of calcium carbonate, which is chalk layered together with a biopolymer, which I think of as snot.
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Earth-based spectroscopic studies have detected carbonates and nitrates, but only spacecraft can pinpoint the whereabouts of these important minerals.
Academic text (1994) -
Teresa scanned craggy terraces, shaped over millennia by the slow drip-dripping of carbonate-rich water.
Fiction book (1990) -
Calcium carbonate is often used in the production of cement and glass.
Compounds
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3.9
A white material in rocks like chalk and limestone and in shells that people use to make lime and cement
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1
5.8
A white powder used to make glass and ceramics and as medicine for bipolar disorder and some depression
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1
3.9
A white powder people use for cleaning and for making glass and soap
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1
6.1
A white solid chemical used in smelling salts and to make bread and cakes rise
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A white powder that dries hands for sport and reduces stomach acid
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A common chemical salt like baking soda that makes carbon dioxide with acid
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A salt that makes cakes rise in baking powder and calms stomach acid
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A white powder that dissolves in water and is used to make glass, soap, and cleaners
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A white powder used in baking to make dough rise and to stop heartburn
How Carbonate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carbonate comes from carbon, a word that once meant 'coal' or 'charcoal', plus the chemical ending -ate. A carbonate is a salt or mineral that contains carbon, so the name reminds you that the substance is made with 'carbon'.