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sulphation

sulphation is the alternative spelling of sulfation.

Meaning of sulfation

Noun

sulfation (countable and uncountable, plural sulfations)

  1. The replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a sulfate (-OSO₂OH) functional group, or the replacement of the hydrogen atoms of two molecules to form a sulfate (R-OSO₂O-R)

Forms of sulphation

pluralsulphations

Questions about sulphation

What is sulphation the alternative spelling of?
Sulphation is the alternative spelling of sulfation.

Words near sulphation in the dictionary

  1. sulphatian
  2. sulphatic
  3. sulphatide
  4. sulphatides
  5. sulphating
  6. sulphation
  7. sulphations
  8. sulphatolamide
  9. sulphats
  10. sulphaurate
  11. sulphaurates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphation (page history and authors); sulfation (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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