Crossword clues for sulfate
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
salt of sulfuric acid, 1790 (sulphat), from French sulphate (1787), from Modern Latin sulphatum acidum, from Latin sulpur, sulphur (see sulfur) + chemical ending -ate (3). The spelling with -ph- is standard in Britain.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context organic chemistry English) Any ester of sulfuric acid. 2 (context inorganic chemistry English) Any salt of sulfuric acid. vb. 1 (context American spelling transitive chemistry English) To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide. 2 (context of a lead-acid battery English) To accumulate a deposit of lead sulfate.
WordNet
n. a salt or ester of sulphuric acid [syn: sulphate]
Wikipedia
The sulfate or sulphate (see spelling differences) ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula . Sulfate is the spelling recommended by IUPAC, but sulphate is used in British English. Salts, acid derivatives, and peroxides of sulfate are widely used in industry. Sulfates occur widely in everyday life. Sulfates are salts of sulfuric acid and many are prepared from that acid.
Usage examples of "sulfate".
Except, perhaps, at the shop where the local chemist made batches of ink by boiling Indigofera plants and copper sulfate together for days until they formed a blue so dark and deep that it approached violet.
The magnesium sulfate would help prevent the grand mal seizures that preeclampsia could bring on, especially in labor.
Depending on mood and metabolic circumstance, they will allow themselves to be phosphorylated, glycosylated, acetylated, ubiquitinated, farneysylated, sulfated, and linked to glycophosphatidylinositol anchors, among rather a lot else.
She dodged past fifty-five gallon drums of carbon tetrachloride and dimethyl sulfate and burst through the rear door of the shop into an alley.
The company physicians did not examine the sick but had them line up behind one another in the dispensaries and a nurse would put a pill the color of copper sulfate on their tongues, whether they had malaria, gonorrhea, or constipation.
Powdered aluminum oxide, and arsenic sulfate in vaporized hydrocarbons expelled from the violent floor, filled the space between mesas.
They got stuff to make it more acidic, aluminum sulfate, I think they call it.
I told Darla to load up the tickler with an upper-downer cocktail: a 1 mg solution of hydromorphone with 5 mg of amphetamine sulfate thrown in to keep me alert.
Several are mentioned by the Encyclopedia Britannica (EB): arsenic oxide, sodium nitrate, sodium chloride, sodium sulfate and sodium nitrate (EB 300).
One of the crystals it leaves behind is hydrous calcium sulfate, also known as gypsum.
In the mid 60s, for instance, about 50 people died when brewers began putting cobalt sulfate into their products as a foaming agent.
Ordinary mineral crystals like copper sulfate often have water hitched to their molecules, loosely.
This set of circumstances naturally got us involved with electrolytic refining, where pure copper is plated out of crudely smelted bars in a copper sulfate bath.
Most of these were shades of silver, but cinnabar reds and blues as poisonous as that of copper sulfate were dazzlingly present.
That is, they're dissolved in the sea water, not in pure form, but in compounds, like copper sulfate and gold chloride.