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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A basic carbonate or one having the carbonic-acid radical partly replaced by oxygen or hydroxyl: as, bismuth subcarbonate, Bl2O2(CO3).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.

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  • noun inorganic chemistry oxycarbonate

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sub- +‎ carbonate

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