Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing three sodium atoms.
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- noun chemistry (in combination) three
atoms ofsodium in acompound
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Examples
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You can use almost any good household cleaner to wash the walls, such as Top Job, Mr. Clean or Simple Green, but many professional painters prefer TSP, a heavy-duty cleaner with the chemical name trisodium phosphate.
Do-It-Yourself Gene Austin 2010
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I think that cleaning solution was too heavy on the bleach and TSP trisodium phosphate.
Do-it-yourself Q&A Gene Austin 2011
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I don†™ t even know what that stuff is. †“Ethylene-trisodium-glycol-phosphate.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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To remove mild cases of mold from your walls, use a mixture of mild soap and water or water and trisodium phosphate TSP.
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Ask for trisodium phosphate washes (TSP) at paint or hardware stores.
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Would throwing a box of TSP (trisodium phosphate) at someone make it a phosphate based chemical weapon.
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But Day 1 was taken up just with preparation: we had to scrub down the walls and ceiling with trisodium phosphate, and then scrub off the TSP with water, and then mask everything we didn't want painted, and drape plastic and paper dropcloths on all horizontal surfaces, and some of the vertical ones.
Archive 2007-01-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007
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But Day 1 was taken up just with preparation: we had to scrub down the walls and ceiling with trisodium phosphate, and then scrub off the TSP with water, and then mask everything we didn't want painted, and drape plastic and paper dropcloths on all horizontal surfaces, and some of the vertical ones.
Vampire Kitchen Walter Jon Williams 2007
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In fact, the Federal Circuit agreed with the lower court that "the antimicrobial activity of calcium trisodium DTPA was unforeseeable during prosecution."
Archive 2006-11-01 Peter Zura 2006
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A brief soak in a solution of trisodium phosphate, followed by a water rinse, restored, not their lives, but their plumpness.
Archive 2006-04-01 AYDIN 2006
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