Sulphating

vbl. sb. [f. SULPHATE + -ING¹.] The formation of a sulphate, esp. of a deposit of lead sulphate on the plates of a battery.

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1890. Philos. Mag., 5th Ser. XXX. 162. The chief benefit … is stated to be that the sodium salt diminishes the chance of objectionable sulphating in the cell.

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1902. Encycl. Brit., XXV. 29/2. The chief faults are buckling, growth, sulphating, and disintegration.

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So Sulphation (see quot.).

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1904. U. S. Geol. Surv., Monogr., XLVII. 205. Sulphation is the union of sulphuric acid with base or the substitution of sulphuric acid for another combined acid.

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