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A salt of carbonic acid in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced
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bicarbonate
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WordNet
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n. a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate [syn: hydrogen carbonate ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bicarbonate \Bi*car"bon*ate\, n. [Pref. bi- + carbonate.] (Chem.) A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it ...
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In inorganic chemistry , bicarbonate ( IUPAC -recommended nomenclature: hydrogen carbonate ) is an intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid . It is a polyatomic anion with the chemical formula . Bicarbonate serves a crucial biochemical role ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context chemistry English) the univalent anion HCO 3 ; any salt of carbonic acid in which only one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced. (from 1814) 2 sodium bicarbonate used as a mild antacid; bicarbonate of soda
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, bi-carbonate of potash , apparently coined by English chemist William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), from bi- + carbonate .
Usage examples of bicarbonate.
He mixes a bicarbonate of soda and drinks it and belches into his hand.
Calder had the horse in his yard he could speed up the cure by giving him bicarbonate of soda, which will make the urine alkaline again and also dissolve the crystals, and with plenty of water to drink the horse would be well in no time.
We can only guess how many priceless Homo erectus bones ended up as a sort of Chinese equivalent of bicarbonate of soda.
The only thing I can think of is that when calcium is inadvertently added to a bicarbonate solution, it causes a precipitation, but that would be in the IV bottle, not the vein.
She's severely acidotic, so she was given twelve ampoules of intravenous sodium bicarbonate, as well as potassium chloride, to correct an electrolyte imbalance.
Further, he knew of a process of combining salt, ammonia, and carbon dioxide to make sodium bicarbonate and ammonium chloride.
Now, with the taste of that synthetic chocolate in my mouth, I don't want anything except a glass of warm milk and later on a little bicarbonate of soda.
You mean that when I was swearing to Len and old Colin that the stuff was morphine sulphate or tartrate or whatever it was, it was merely bicarbonate of soda all the time?
What if this bicarbonate of soda fallout is doing something to people's digestion?
Plain old bicarbonate of soda will make you belch if a belch is required, and that was Doc's main ingredient.
Miss Conover gave him two aspirin and a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda.
In a country where the bourgeoisie over-eat so that their stomachs are all ruined and they cannot live without bicarbonate of soda and the poor are hungry from their birth till the day they die, why wouldn't he be tubercular?
In a country where the bourgeoisie over-eat so that their stomachs are all ruined and they cannot live without bicarbonate of soda and the poor are hungry from their birth till the day they die, why wouldn’.
The bicarbonate of soda trick hadn't worked, the captain told Nelson ruefully.
It would be a mercy to put him out of his misery, though the blow to the bicarbonate of soda industry might cause a sag in the stock-market.