carbonate

Noun

• (UK) enPR: käʹbənət, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.nət/

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• (US) enPR: kärʹbənət, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹbənət/

Verb

• (UK) enPR: käʹbənāt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/

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• (US) enPR: kärʹbənāt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/

From French carbonate, equivalent of carbon +‎ -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).

carbonate (plural carbonates)

1. Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.
   • 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A sample of carbon removed from the ocean in the solid form of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide from UCLA's SeaChange program -- now known as Equatic -- in 2023.

   • 2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.

From carbon +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

carbonate (third-person singular simple present carbonates, present participle carbonating, simple past and past participle carbonated)

1. (transitive) To charge (often a beverage) with carbon dioxide.

• carbonate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From New Latin carbonatem, from Latin carbō (“charcoal, coal”).

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.bɔ.nat/

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carbonate m (plural carbonates)

1. carbonate

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

carbonate f pl

1. plural of carbonata

carbonate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of carbonar combined with te