SULFONATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A salt of sulphonic acid

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sulfonate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sulfonate"):

alkylbenzenesulfonate (sulfonate of alkyl benzene)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb sulfonate