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[syn: bicarbonate, hydrogen carbonate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster] Bicarbureted
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bicarbonate
n 1: a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in
which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid
carbonate [syn: bicarbonate, hydrogen carbonate]