a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
verb
2. (transitive)
to introduce a sulphonic acid group, –SO2OH, into (a molecule)
Examples of 'sulphonate' in a sentence
sulphonate
Centrifugation operation was used to extract the sulphonate dispersed in the oil.
Elizabeth Jumoke ETERIGHO, Moses Aderemi OLUTOYE 2008, 'Quality Improvement of an Acid Treated Fuel Oil', Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologieshttp://lejpt.academicdirect.org/A12/095_104.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Addition of sodium lignin sulphonate resulted in the formation of anodic layers with more homogeneity and fewer cracks.
Omar E. Abdel-Salam, Madiha A. Shoeib, Hagar Ashour Elkilany 2018, 'Characterization of the hard anodizing layers formed on 2014-T3 Al alloy, in sulphuricacid electrolyte containing sodium lignin sulphonate', Egyptian Journal of Petroleumhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110062117300892. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The compressive strength of silica fume concretes was investigated at low water-cementitious materials ratios with a naphthalene sulphonate superplasticizer.
E. H. Kadri, S. Aggoun, S. Kenai, A. Kaci 2012, 'The Compressive Strength of High-Performance Concrete and Ultrahigh-Performance',Advances in Materials Science and Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/361857. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)