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carbonate

/noun kahr-buh-neyt, -nit; verb kahr-buh-neyt/US // noun ˈkɑr bəˌneɪt, -nɪt; verb ˈkɑr bəˌneɪt //

碳酸盐,碳酸鹽,碳酸盐,碳酸

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    car·bon·at·ed, car·bon·at·ing.

    • : to form into a carbonate.
    • : to charge or impregnate with carbon dioxide: carbonated drinks.
    • : to make sprightly; enliven.

Examples

  • When it comes to permanently storing CO2, there’s growing interest in using certain minerals that react with the gas and lock it up in the form of stable carbonates.

  • Calcium carbonate is found in nature as limestone, and is a common additive to consumer products like paper and toothpaste.

  • Ultimately those creatures die, their shells sinking to the ocean floor and becoming carbonate rocks themselves.

  • Carbon dioxide from the air reacts with the electrolyte, forming carbonates that block one electrode.

  • The new picture of a broadly moist Bennu forerunner fits with studies of meteorites on Earth, where researchers had seen similar carbonate veins.

  • Using vinegar to break up the calcium carbonate deposits in your coffee maker?

  • When ordinary methods do not suffice, it can usually be cleared by shaking up with a little magnesium carbonate and filtering.

  • It is in this way that lime, which occurs in the soil principally as the insoluble carbonate, is dissolved and absorbed.

  • But the part soluble in acids is distinguished by the great abundance of carbonate of lime.

  • Chalk is a very pure form of carbonate of lime, and where it abounds has been largely employed as an application on the soil.

  • Calcareous incrustations, including fragments of madrepores, and of shells, cemented by splintery carbonate of lime.