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A salt or ester of sulphuric acid
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sulphate
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Sulphate \Sul"phate\, n. [NL. sulphas, sulphatis, fr. L. sulphur, sulfur, brimstone, sulphur: cf. F. sulfate.] (Chem.) A salt of sulphuric acid.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN aluminium ▪ Mixed with water, aluminium sulphate becomes increasingly acid. ▪ Most of the aluminium contamination is due to aluminium sulphate added to water to remove cloudiness. ▪ The low-level, continuous exposure ...
WordNet
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n. a salt or ester of sulphuric acid [syn: sulfate ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British spelling chemistry English) (alternative spelling of sulfate English) vb. (context British spelling chemistry English) (alternative spelling of sulfate English)
Usage examples of sulphate.
If the volumetric method is to be used, the lead sulphate should be dissolved out with a solution of sodium acetate instead of with the ammonium salt solution.
If the lead is present as sulphate in sodic acetate solution, it is well to render it distinctly alkaline with ammonia.
When the lead in the assay has been separated as sulphate and dissolved in sodic acetate, less chromate is apparently required, and in this case it will be necessary to precipitate the lead in the standard with an equivalent of sodic sulphate and redissolve in sodic acetate just as in the assay.
From baryta, which it also resembles, it is distinguished by not yielding an insoluble chromate in an acetic acid solution, by the solubility of its chloride in alcohol, and by the fact that its sulphate is converted into carbonate on boiling with a solution formed of 3 parts of potassium carbonate and 1 of potassium sulphate.
Since sulphuric acid and sulphates are predominant in waters of this kind, it is most convenient to report the acidity of the water as equivalent to so much sulphuric acid.
The re-crystallised and pure salt is used for preparing the anhydrous sulphate, which is used for detecting moisture in gases.
To this last is joined a drying-tube containing chloride of calcium and anhydrous copper sulphate.
Dipped ordinary paper in an aqueous solution of sulphate of copper and carbonate of ammonia and then added alkaline solutions of cochineal or equivalent coloring matter.
It oxidises most combustible substances with deflagration, and thereby converts sulphides into sulphates, arsenides into arsenates, and most metals into oxides.
Sulphites are of little importance to the assayer, and are converted into sulphates by the action of nitric acid and other oxidising agents.
It gives a red colour with brucine, turns the green sulphate of iron black, and with hydrochloric acid dissolves gold.
Before determining the quantities of the particular alkali metals present, it is best to convert them altogether, either into chloride or sulphate, and to take the weight of the mixed salts.
The oxygen in the sulphates and oxides thus obtained is estimated by determining the sulphur and metals in the solutions, and calculating the amount of oxygen with which they combine.
The superiority which is claimed for Burton ales is attributed to the use of well-water impregnated with sulphate of lime derived from the gypseous deposits of the district.
Cyrus Harding had now at his disposal a large quantity of these sulphate of iron crystals, from which the sulphuric acid had to be extracted.