sulfate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any salt or ester of sulfuric acid.

   Another type, also common in the Taipei area has more chlorides than sulfates, and while it is also hot, its flavor is more salty than sour. The springs at Chinshan on the north coast are typical of this type.

2. 2
   noun

   a salt or ester of sulphuric acid

3. 3
   verb

   convert into a sulfate

4. 4
   verb

   To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide.

From French sulfate, from New Latin sulphatum, taken from the expression acidum sulphatum (“sulfuric acid”), from sulphatus, from Latin sulphur (“sulfur”). The term was first used in 1787 by the French chemist L. B. G. De Morveau. Equivalent to sulf(ur) + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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