sulfate
IPA: sˈʌɫfeɪt
noun
- (organic chemistry) Any ester of sulfuric acid.
- (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of sulfuric acid.
verb
- (American spelling, transitive, chemistry) To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide.
- (of a lead-acid battery) To accumulate a deposit of lead sulfate.
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Examples of "sulfate" in Sentences
- Sulfate reduction sulfate as electron acceptor.
- Sodium sulfate is the sodium salt of sulfuric acid.
- Caesium sulfate is the caesium salt of sulfuric acid.
- Copper sulfate was also used in the past as an emetic.
- Hydrazine sulfate is the salt of hydrazine and sulfuric acid.
- Barium sulfate is irritable outside the gastrointestinal tract.
- Upon recharge of the battery, the sulfate returns to the electrolyte.
- Barium sulfate is mainly used in the imaging of the digestive system.
- Alum and sodium aluminum sulfate are leavening agents found in baking powder.
- The sulfate is subsequently removed from the body of aqueous liquid absorbent.
- It looks like copper sulfate, which is innocuous enough to be carrying around in an open beaker.
- 72Horovitz and Hönigschmid purified lead out of 100 kg of lead sulfate from the Joachimsthal pitchblende,
- Epsom salt is the commercial name for magnesium sulfate, which is sold in almost every drugstore for just a few dollars a carton.
- There is also a chemical reliance in organic agriculture; they just happen to be natural chemicals, like nicotine sulfate, which is horribly dangerous.
- As luck would have it, the reactions that produce glutathione also yield molecules called sulfate groups, which help generate those joint-sparing proteoglycans.
- In these cases, the pregnant woman is hospitalized and given a drug such as magnesium sulfate, which is given intravenously and stops labor by relaxing the muscles of the uterus.
- All the biochemical steps along the way have to work in order for you to methylate and to sulfate, which is the process by which your body produces glutathione, the mother of all detoxifiers and antioxidants.
- Schopf and another researcher, Jack Farmer of Arizona State University, announced the results of a recent study in which they found that a type of mineral deposit called sulfate can harbor fossils of ancient organisms.
- Meanwhile, the sulfur dioxide component underwent chemical reactions to form a particulate known as sulfate aerosol (in essence, droplets of water and sulfuric acid), which absorbs sunlight and reflects some of it back into space.