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sulfonations

sulfonations is the plural of sulfonation.

Meaning of sulfonation

Noun

sulfonation (countable and uncountable, plural sulfonations)

  1. The replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a sulfonic acid (-SO₃H) functional group, often by reaction with sulfuric acid at high temperatures

Questions about sulfonations

What is sulfonations the plural of?
Sulfonations is the plural of sulfonation.

Words near sulfonations in the dictionary

  1. sulfonate
  2. sulfonated
  3. sulfonates
  4. sulfonating
  5. sulfonation
  6. sulfonations
  7. sulfonatoisoindole
  8. sulfonatoisoindoles
  9. sulfonator
  10. sulfonators
  11. sulfone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulfonations (page history and authors); sulfonation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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