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The unsung skeleton of mountains, seashells, and your antacid's fizzy revenge.
means To charge a liquid with carbon dioxide gas (giving it fizz), or, as a noun, a salt or ester containing the carbonate ion CO3.
from From 'carbon,' which comes from the Latin 'carbo,' meaning coal or charcoal — the same ember-black stuff Romans raked from their fires. The '-ate' is the chemist's suffix for a salt of an acid, here carbonic acid. So a carbonate is, quite literally, coal-stuff bound into a salt; the verb sense (to add fizz) followed once chemists learned that dissolving that carbon-dioxide gas into water made it bubble.
- rock star
- Limestone and marble are basically pressed calcium carbonate
- ocean buffer
- Carbonate keeps seawater from turning dangerously acidic
- baking secret
- Sodium bicarbonate releases CO2 to make cakes rise
- shell builder
- Corals and mollusks mine seawater for carbonate
- carbon sink
- Vast carbon stays locked underground as carbonate rock
coca-cola — carbonated soft drink containing 3.7-4.0 volumes of co2, sold in 200+ countries since 1886
perrier — naturally carbonated mineral water from vergèze, france, with 5.5 volumes of co2
san pellegrino — italian sparkling mineral water from lombardy with 2.5 volumes of co2, founded 1899