Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bicarbonate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bicarbonate \Bi*car"bon*ate\, n. [Pref. bi- + carbonate.]
(Chem.)
A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is
replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the
proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice
what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; --
sometimes called {supercarbonate}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bicarbonate
n : a salt of carbonic acid in which one hydrogen atom has been
replaced; an acid carbonate [syn: {hydrogen carbonate}]
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