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sulphonate

sulphonate is the alternative spelling of sulfonate.

Meaning of sulfonate

Noun

sulfonate (plural sulfonates)

  1. (US) Any salt or ester of a sulfonic acid.

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Forms of sulphonate

Noun
pluralsulphonates
Verb
third-person singular presentsulphonates
present participlesulphonating
past participlesulphonated
pastsulphonated

Words formed from sulphonate

Questions about sulphonate

What is sulphonate the alternative spelling of?
Sulphonate is the alternative spelling of sulfonate.

Words near sulphonate in the dictionary

  1. sulphomucin
  2. sulphomucins
  3. sulphonal
  4. sulphonamide
  5. sulphonamides
  6. sulphonate
  7. sulphonated
  8. sulphonates
  9. sulphonating
  10. sulphonation
  11. sulphonations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphonate (page history and authors); sulfonate (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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