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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white or yellowish hygroscopic crystalline solid, H3PO3, used as a reducing agent and to produce phosphite salts.
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- noun chemistry a
yellowish hygroscopic solid, H3PO3; a mildreducing agent
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- noun a clear or yellow monobasic acid (H3PO2)
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