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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Carbureted hydrogen gas.
- n. In modern chemistry and mineralogy, an acid carbonate or carbonate of hydrogen and a metal: as, hydrocarbonate of magnesia (magnesium acid carbonate), H2Mg (CO3)2; also, but improperly, applied to a compound of a metal with hydroxyl and the radical of carbonic acid: as, hydrocarbonate of copper (of the mineral malachite) equals copper hydroxycarbonate, Cu2.(HO)2.CO3.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry, obsolete A hydrocarbon.
- n. chemistry, obsolete A hydrous carbonate, such as malachite.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Old Chem.), obsolete A hydrocarbon.
- n. (Chem.) A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.
Etymologies
- hydro- + carbonate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In addition to carbonates of sodium, especially the hydrocarbonate known as glycolate, the bile apparently contains ammonium sulphate combined with hydrocarbon (taurin); but this results from the transposition of sodium sulphate and gelatine.”
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“The iron must be in certain soluble conditions, however, and the soluble bicarbonate of the protoxide of chalybeate springs seems most favourable, the hydrocarbonate absorbed by the cells is oxidized, probably thus --”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“In May, U.S. oil trader and former president of Trammo Corporation Donald Schroeder pleaded guilty to purchasing stolen Mexican condensate, a raw hydrocarbonate similar to crude oil used to make plastic, as well as coordinating its shipment to Texas via barge.”
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