Definitions
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
Etymologies
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Examples
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He invented a process that involved giving patients massive amounts of magnesium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, and bismuth subcarbonate along with lots of milk.
Milk-Alkali Syndrome Steve Carper 2008
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To correct this, throw a small quantity of subcarbonate of soda into the pot along with the vegetables.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 Various
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= — Take fine powder of pumice stone, four drams; fine powder of cuttlefish bone, four drams; add one scruple of subcarbonate of soda.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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A mixture of four ounces of nitrate of ammonia, four ounces of subcarbonate of soda, and four ounces of water, in a tin pail, has been found to produce ten ounces of ice in three hours.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 Various
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Use plenty of castile soap and water, and then apply freely iodide of sulphur ointment; or take any given quantity of simple sulphur ointment and color it to a light brown or chocolate color with the subcarbonate of iron, and then perfume it.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Pliny ascribes the discovery of glass to some Phœnician sailors accidently lighting a fire on the sea-shore; but if an effect of chance, the secret is more likely to have been arrived at in Egypt, where natron (or subcarbonate of soda) abounded, than by the sea side; and if the Phœnicians really were the first to discover it on the
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-- Mix twenty grains quinine with one pint diluted gin or port wine, and add ten grains subcarbonate of iron.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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That of Berlin is composed of Armenian bole, red clay, dragons 'blood, powdered rose-leaves, powdered galls, and powdered subcarbonate of lead.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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The pain of gastralgia is sometimes allayed by using half a teaspoonful of subcarbonate of bismuth, and repeating the dose, if the attack is not relieved.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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In hospital practice the old subcarbonate answers very well, being cheap, and not unpalatable when shaken up in water or given in an effervescent draught of carbonated waters.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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