Usually means: Compound containing sulfur and oxygen.
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  1. sulfate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sulfate: Merriam-Webster
  3. sulfate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sulfate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sulfate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sulfate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sulfate, sulfate: Wordnik
  8. sulfate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sulfate: Wiktionary
  10. sulfate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sulfate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sulfate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sulfate: Dictionary.com
  14. sulfate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sulfate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. sulfate: Rhymezone
  17. sulfate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sulfate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sulfate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sulfate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sulfate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. sulfate: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sulfate: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See sulfated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
verb:  (American spelling, transitive, chemistry) To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide.
verb:  (of a lead-acid battery) To accumulate a deposit of lead sulfate.

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