bicarbonate

See also: Bicarbonate and bicarbonaté

English

Alternative forms

• bi-carbonate

Etymology

From bi- +‎ carbonate.

Noun

bicarbonate (plural bicarbonates)

1. (chemistry) the univalent anion HCO₃^-; any salt of carbonic acid in which only one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced. [from 1814]
   • 1814, William Hyde Wollaston, “A synoptic scale of chemical equivalents”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 104, page 11:

     The next question that occurs relates to the composition of this crystallized carbonate of potash, which I am induced to call bi-carbonate of potash, for the purpose of marking more decidedly the distinction between this salt and that which is commonly called a subcarbonate, and in order to refer at once to the double dose of carbonic acid contained in it.

2. sodium bicarbonate used as a mild antacid; bicarbonate of soda

Derived terms

• bicarbonate of soda
• cobalt-bicarbonate method
• manganese bicarbonate
• potassium bicarbonate
• sodium bicarbonate

 

Translations

chemistry

• Basque: bikarbonato
• Catalan: bicarbonat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碳酸氢根 (tàn suān qīng gēn), 碳酸氢盐 (tàn suān qīng yán)

• Finnish: vetykarbonaatti (fi), bikarbonaatti (fi)
• French: bicarbonate (fr) m
• Georgian: ბიკარბონატი (biḳarbonaṭi)
• German: Bicarbonat n
• Irish: décharbónáit f
• Italian: bicarbonato (it) m
• Malagasy: karibonetra (mg)
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• Malay: bikarbonat
• Norman: bicarbonate m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hydrogenkarbonat n, bikarbonat n

  Nynorsk: hydrogenkarbonat n

• Persian: بی‌کربنات (bikarbonât)
• Polish: wodorowęglan (pl) m
• Portuguese: bicarbonato m
• Spanish: bicarbonato (es) m
• Telugu: బైకార్బొనేటు (baikārbonēṭu), ద్వికర్బనితము (dvikarbanitamu) (archaic)

of soda

• Finnish: ruokasooda (fi)
• French: bicarbonate (fr) m
• Italian: bicarbonato di sodio (it) m, bicarbonato (it) m
• Malay: bikarbonat
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• Norman: bicarbonate m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: natron n
• Polish: soda oczyszczona f
• Portuguese: bicarbonato m
• Spanish: bicarbonato (es) m

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.kaʁ.bɔ.nat/

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• Homophones: bicarbonatent, bicarbonates

Noun

bicarbonate m (plural bicarbonates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) bicarbonate

Verb

bicarbonate

1. inflection of bicarbonater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bicarbonate m (plural bicarbonates)

1. (Jersey, chemistry) bicarbonate
2. (Jersey) sodium bicarbonate