carbonate
Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.
A kind of
- salt
Kinds of carbonate
- malachite
- ammonium carbonate
- hydrogen carbonate
- potassium carbonate
- calcium carbonate
- lithium carbonate
- magnesium carbonate
- zinc carbonate
Word history
From French "carbonate".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “carbonate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.