1. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid containing the HSO4- ion
Usage: chemistry

Examples

• Sodium bisulfate is commonly used as a pH reducer in swimming pools.
• The laboratory prepared potassium bisulfate for the acid-base reaction.
• Bisulfate compounds are often found in industrial cleaning products.
• The chemist analyzed the bisulfate solution under controlled conditions.
• Many bisulfate salts are highly soluble in water.
• The reaction produced a bisulfate precipitate that settled at the bottom.