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Definition of Metaphosphoric acid
1. Noun. A glassy solid acid ([HPO3]n) often used as a dehydrating agent.
Definition of Metaphosphoric acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) an anhydrous form of phosphoric acid that exists as a polymeric glassy solid, (HPO3)n; used as a drying agent and in dental cement ¹
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Medical Definition of Metaphosphoric acid
1. An anhydride of phosphoric acid used as a reagent, and in the manufacture of zinc oxyphosphate cement for dentistry. Synonym: metaphosphoric acid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaphosphoric Acid
Literary usage of Metaphosphoric acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1921)
"METAPHOSPHORIC Acro, HPO, The monobasic metaphosphoric acid is obtained by treating
... metaphosphoric acid is a colorless, glassy, hygroscopic mass. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"Ordinary metaphosphoric acid, obtained by the processes above described, ...
The double salts of this variety of metaphosphoric acid contain equal or ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"OHs> is obtained in brilliant plates. It is decomposed by water into a sulphate
and free phosphoric acid. (518) metaphosphoric acid ; Hydric Metaphosphate, ..."
4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1920)
"The glacial phosphoric acid of the shops is metaphosphoric acid, which usually
contains soda as impurity.1 metaphosphoric acid is also formed when ..."
5. Principles of Theoretical Chemistry, with Special Reference to the by Ira Remsen (1877)
"metaphosphoric acid. Accepting the formula for phosphoric acid which is employed
in this ... metaphosphoric acid. P2O5 + 2H2'0 = HPO,, pyrophosphoric acid. ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1907)
"... the action that takes place when sulphuric acid decomposes normal calcium
phosphate, forming calcium sulphate and phosphoric acid.] metaphosphoric acid ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"By being forced to unite with two equivalents of base, the acid acquires a
disposition to do so on all occasions. metaphosphoric acid.—This acid is obtained ..."
8. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"If one add to a solution of metaphosphoric acid as much ferric chloride as can
be kept ... Plasmin behaves exactly as does this metaphosphoric acid : it too ..."
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