bicarbonate

• bi-carbonate

From bi- +‎ carbonate.

bicarbonate (plural bicarbonates)

1. (organic chemistry) the univalent anion HCO₃^-; any salt of carbonic acid in which only one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced. [from 1814]
   • 1814, William Hyde Wollaston, “A synoptic scale of chemical equivalents”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 104, page 11:

     The next question that occurs relates to the composition of this crystallized carbonate of potash, which I am induced to call bi-carbonate of potash, for the purpose of marking more decidedly the distinction between this salt and that which is commonly called a subcarbonate, and in order to refer at once to the double dose of carbonic acid contained in it.

2. Sodium bicarbonate used as a mild antacid; bicarbonate of soda.
   • 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Fans will pump air through the alkaline stream, which causes carbon dioxide to form solid calcium carbonate, the material from which seashells are formed, which will look like a fine sand, as well as dissolved bicarbonate.

• IPA^(key): /bi.kaʁ.bɔ.nat/

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• Homophones: bicarbonatent, bicarbonates

bicarbonate m (plural bicarbonates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) bicarbonate

• bicarbonate de soude

bicarbonate

1. inflection of bicarbonater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “bicarbonate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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bicarbonate m (plural bicarbonates)

1. (Jersey, chemistry) bicarbonate
2. (Jersey) sodium bicarbonate