Carbonate Definition
 kärbə-nāt 
  carbonated, carbonates, carbonating
  
    verb
  
 To burn to carbon; carbonize.
 Webster's New World 
To charge with carbon dioxide.
 Carbonated drinks.
 Webster's New World 
To form into a carbonate.
 Webster's New World 
    noun
  
 A salt of carbonic acid containing the divalent, negative radical CO3
 Webster's New World 
An uncharged ester of this acid.
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Sediment or a sedimentary rock formed by the precipitation of organic or inorganic carbon from an aqueous solution of carbonates of calcium, magnesium, or iron. Limestone is a carbonate rock.
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Other Word Forms of Carbonate
Noun
Singular:
 carbonatePlural:
 carbonatesOrigin of Carbonate
-  From French carbonate. From Wiktionary 
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