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ammoniate

ammoniate verb: to treat with ammonia.

Verb

ammoniate (third-person singular simple present ammoniates, present participle ammoniating, simple past and past participle ammoniated)

  1. (transitive) To treat with ammonia.

Noun

ammoniate (plural ammoniates)

  1. Any compound containing ammonia bound as a ligand.

Forms of ammoniate

Verb
third-person singular presentammoniates
present participleammoniating
past participleammoniated
pastammoniated
Noun
pluralammoniates

Origin of ammoniate

From ammonia + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

From ammonia + -ate.

Questions about ammoniate

What does ammoniate mean?
Ammoniate means to treat with ammonia.
What part of speech is ammoniate?
Ammoniate can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of ammoniate?
The past tense of ammoniate is ammoniated.

Words near ammoniate in the dictionary

  1. ammoniaphone
  2. ammoniaphones
  3. ammoniaporin
  4. ammoniaporins
  5. ammonias
  6. ammoniate
  7. ammoniated
  8. ammoniates
  9. ammoniating
  10. ammoniation
  11. ammoniations

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