Word Meanings - CARBONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

LIMESTONE
A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
CARBONIC
Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid , an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. On common language the term is very generally
MONOCARBONIC
Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
SULPHOCARBONIC
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
ORTHOCARBONIC
Designating a complex ether, C. 4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid,
DICARBONIC
Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
CLIFF LIMESTONE
A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.
THIOCARBONIC
See SULPHOCARBONIC