AMMONIATE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does ammoniate mean?

• AMMONIATE (verb)
The verb AMMONIATE has 1 sense:

1. treat with ammonia

Familiarity information: AMMONIATE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AMMONIATE (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they ammoniate

... he / she / it ammoniates

Past simple: ammoniated

Past participle: ammoniated

-ing form: ammoniating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat with ammonia

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "ammoniate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

ammonia (a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3))

ammonia (a water solution of ammonia)

Context examples

The surface of Ceres contains ammoniated phyllosilicates, or clays containing ammonia.

(Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area, NASA)

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