Definition of Pyrophosphate

1. Noun. A salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.

Generic synonyms: Salt

Definition of Pyrophosphate

1. n. A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

Definition of Pyrophosphate

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

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Definition of Pyrophosphate

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrophosphate

pyrophile
pyrophiles
pyrophobia
pyrophobic
pyrophone
pyrophones
pyrophore
pyrophores
pyrophoric
pyrophoric alloy
pyrophoric iron
pyrophoricity
pyrophorus
pyrophosphatase
pyrophosphatases
pyrophosphate (current term)
pyrophosphates
pyrophosphohydrolase
pyrophosphohydrolases
pyrophosphoric
pyrophosphoric acid
pyrophosphorolysis
pyrophosphorolytic
pyrophosphorylase
pyrophosphorylases
pyrophyllite
pyrophyllites
pyrophyte
pyrophytes
pyroptosis

Literary usage of Pyrophosphate

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

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"position of a double salt produced as an amorphous precipitate, on dropping chloride pi barium into a boiling solution of sodic pyrophosphate. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"On the Action of Nitric And upon pyrophosphate of Magnesia. ... When pyrophosphate of magnesia was dissolved in ordinary nitric acid, and exposed in an open ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"I must, in the first place, mention that the pyrophosphate of soda is prepared by drying ... The pyrophosphate of iron corresponds to the preceding salt ..."

4. Physicians' Manual of Therapeutics by Parke, Davis & Company, Davis & Company Parke (1901)
"Ferric pyrophosphate, soluble, 8 grs. Bismuth and Ammonium citrate, 8 grs. ... Iron pyrophosphate and Strychnine (No. 71). Ferric pyrophosphate, soluble ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1851)
"This salt, when boiled with ordinary phosphate of soda, does not yield pyrophosphate of soda, as is the case with the preceding. (Schwarzenberg, Ann. Pharm. ..."

6. The Standard Formulary by Albert Ethelbert Ebert, A. Emil Hiss (1897)
"16 Dissolve the iron pyrophosphate in the water, add the elixir, ... Elixir of Iron pyrophosphate and Gentian. Refer to Elixir of Gentian and its ..."

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