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Plural of carbonate

regular plural

The plural of carbonate is carbonates.

Forms of carbonate

Singularcarbonate /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/
Pluralcarbonates
Countablecountable

Carbonates in a sentence

  • The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’...
  • Seep carbonates throughout the geological record share similar petrofabrics, specifically botryoidal cements, yellow calcite, micrite, and micropeloids.2022 August 30, Andrzej Kaim, J. Kirk Cochran, Neil H. Landman, Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps, Springer Nature, page 118. From the entry petrofabrics
  • Malic acid finds use in a variety of products, mostly in fruit-flavoured carbonates.2008, Dr. David Steen, Philip R. Ashurst, editors, Carbonated Soft Drinks: Formulation and Manufacture, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry acidulant
  • Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.2003, B. B. Huckell, C. Vance Haynes, “The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory”, in…. From the entry groundwater
  • They are developed from coastal-plain materials consisting of sand and clay, free from lime carbonates or greensand.1927, L[inwood] L[awrence] Lee, J. E. Tine, “Collington Loam”, in Soil Survey of the Freehold Area, New Jersey (United States Department…. From the entry greensand

Meaning of carbonate

  1. noun Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.
  2. verb To charge (often a beverage) with carbon dioxide.

Full definition of carbonate

Questions about the plural of carbonate

What is the plural of carbonate?
The plural of carbonate is carbonates.
Is carbonate countable?
Carbonate is a countable noun.

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