Word Meanings - SULPHONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A salt of sulphonic acid.

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• SULPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain