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Definition of Phosphate

1. Noun. A salt of phosphoric acid.

2. Noun. Carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid.

Definition of Phosphate

1. n. A salt of phosphoric acid.

Definition of Phosphate

1. Noun. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid. ¹

2. Noun. (US regional dated) A carbonated soft drink sweetened with fruit syrup and with some phosphoric acid. ¹

3. Verb. To treat or coat with a phosphate or with phosphoric acid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phosphate

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Phosphate

1. A salt of phosphoric acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phosphate

phosphamic acid phosphamidase phosphamidon phosphammite phosphams phosphane phosphanes phosphanthridine phosphanthridines phosphanylidene

phosphanylidenes phosphastat phosphatase phosphatase unit phosphatases phosphate phosphate acetyltransferase phosphate buffer solution phosphate diabetes phosphate group

phosphate permease phosphate tetany phosphated phosphatemia phosphates phosphatian phosphatic phosphatidal phosphatidase phosphatidate

Literary usage of Phosphate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"The phosphate and lime were sown on fall plowing and disked in. ... I applied 600- pounds rock phosphate per acre to ten acres prairie corn land, ..."

2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"His figures indicate a cost of $13 a ton for acid phosphate and $24.80 a ton for Tennessee ground rock phosphate. INDIANA Phosphate EXPERIMENTS. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"The floats and the acid phosphate being used in the same quantity, ... If there were such a tremendous solvent effect of raw rock phosphate in the soil as ..."

4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The ammonium magnesium phosphate may be filtered directly into a weighed Gooch crucible and ignited, thus avoiding the carbon of the filter paper, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"The writer finds that the calculated profits for both acid phosphate and rock ... One dollar invested in acid phosphate shows an average profit of $2.14 per ..."

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