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Definition of Metaphosphates
1. metaphosphate [n] - See also: metaphosphate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaphosphates
Literary usage of Metaphosphates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemistry, General, Medical, and Pharmaceutical: Including the Chemistry of by John Attfield (1873)
"Possibly the pyrophosphates are only compounds or orthophosphates with metaphosphates
... metaphosphates ..."
2. Notes on Qualitative Analysis: Concise and Explanatory by Henry John Horstman Fenton (1899)
"Solutions of metaphosphates (eg NaPO,) give with Silver nitrate, white ppt.
of silver metaphosphate ..."
3. Elements of Inorganic Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science by Thomas Graham (1858)
"... of earthy and metallic salts, metaphosphate of soda throws down insoluble
hydrated metaphosphates, of which the physical condition is remarkable. ..."
4. A Manual of Chemistry, Descriptive and Theoretical by William Odling (1861)
"The circumstances under which pyrophosphates become orthophosphates and metaphosphates
have been previously considered. ..."
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