sulfate

• sulphate (UK)

From French sulfate, from New Latin sulphatum, taken from the expression acidum sulphatum (“sulfuric acid”), from sulphatus, from Latin sulphur (“sulfur”). The term was first used in 1787 by the French chemist L. B. G. De Morveau. Equivalent of sulfur +‎ -ate.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌlfeɪt/

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sulfate (plural sulfates) (American spelling)

1. (organic chemistry) Any ester of sulfuric acid.
2. (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of sulfuric acid.
   • 1982 February 21, “Wulai: Hot springs resort with treasury of culture”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XXII, number 7, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

     Another type, also common in the Taipei area has more chlorides than sulfates, and while it is also hot, its flavor is more salty than sour. The springs at Chinshan on the north coast are typical of this type.

   • 1983, Richard E. Behrman, Victor C. Vaughan, III, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics‎^[2], W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, page 249:

     Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.

   • 2011, Peter Watts, Crysis: Legion, Del Rey, published 2011, →ISBN, page 7:

     The whole world's fighting over fresh water like a pack of starving dogs with one stripped bone among them, and then Brazil started shooting all those sulfates into the stratosphere and—well, it was turning out just like the environazis said, only way worse and way fucking faster.

sulfate (third-person singular simple present sulfates, present participle sulfating, simple past and past participle sulfated)

1. (American spelling, transitive, chemistry) To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide.
2. (of a lead-acid battery) To accumulate a deposit of lead sulfate.

• fluates

• Homophones: sulfatent, sulfates

sulfate

1. inflection of sulfater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

sulfate

1. inflection of sulfatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative