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  • noun Plural form of bicarbonate.

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Examples

  • The chemical factory, Eisenbuettel, near Braunschweig, distributes the following circular: "The principal generators of incrustation in boilers are gypsum and the so-called bicarbonates of calcium and magnesium.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various

  • Whereas baking powder is a self-contained system of both bicarbonates and an acid that will react with it.

    New Frontier For Geeks: The Kitchen 2010

  • Carbon dioxide may result from the decomposition of bicarbonates present in or added to crude oil, or from steam used in the distillation process.

    Hydrocarbon chemistry 2007

  • This effectively removes lime and bicarbonates as well as sodium.

    6: Soil health and plant nutrition 1996

  • Manganese or Iron bicarbonates or sulfates; silt and clays may add to the problem as do some "iron bacteria" or "slime forming" micro-organisms.

    6. Water sources, their protection and development 1992

  • Hardness, caused by bicarbonates, sulphates and chlorides of Calcium and Magnesium forms insoluble precipitates with soap and causes the deposition of scale.

    8. Water treatment 1992

  • Among these dissolved solids, the most common in natural waters are bicarbonates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and nitrates of Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Iron and Manganese.

    8. Water treatment 1992

  • The principal ingredients are the chlorate of sodium, mixed with the bicarbonates of lime, soda, and magnesia, and a little iron.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • Less than ½ m. from the inn, by the Clermont road, is a cold mineral spring, containing bicarbonates of lime, magnesia, and soda, with free carbonic acid gas.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • It contains the bicarbonates of lime, magnesia, and soda, silicates of lime and alumina, and the oxide of iron.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

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