Examples from literature

• Some fishing is carried on: but the staple trade is the export of sand, which, being highly charged with carbonate of lime, is much used for manure. 
• The carbonate of ammonia was dissolved in water and sprinkled over the growing wheat at three different times during the spring. 
• The carbonate which is formed upon the charcoal, beyond the oxide, is of a bluish-white color. 
• The principal mineral impurities of well and spring water are lime, magnesia, soda, and oxide of iron, combined with carbonic and sulphuric acids, forming carbonates, sulphates, and chloride of sodium, or common salt. 
• With carbonate of soda it fuses with effervescence to a bead which spreads over the charcoal.