hydrogen carbonate

Questions about hydrogen carbonate

What does hydrogen carbonate mean?

hydrogen carbonate means "a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate".

What is another word for hydrogen carbonate?

Close synonyms include bicarbonate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hydrogen carbonate a common word?

hydrogen carbonate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hydrogen carbonate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.