Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, produced from, or resembling phosphorus or phosphoric acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called
glacial phosphoric acid . Compare the tribasicorthophosphoric acid .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
metaphosphoric acid
Etymologies
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Examples
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While the secondary phosphates, on heating, give salts of pyrophosphoric acid, the primary phosphates yield salts of metaphosphoric acid.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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These oxides often give a characteristic color to the clear borax glass, and borax beads are therefore often used in testing for the presence of metals, instead of the metaphosphoric acid bead already described.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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P_ {2} O_ {5} + H_ {2} O = 2HPO_ {3} (metaphosphoric acid).
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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It is precipitated by hydrochloric, nitric, picric and the metaphosphoric acids.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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