Phosphate

Quick meaning: Phosphate is a noun meaning (chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.

Meaning

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.

More Meanings

1. (agriculture) Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
2. Guano (containing high levels of phosphates and harvested for the fertiliser industry).
3. (US, regional, dated) A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
4. To treat or coat with a phosphate or phosphoric acid.

Example Sentences

Bony fishes were judicious in their use of phosphate as a building material: their teeth, a few parts of the skeleton, and that was it.

Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.

“This man here,” she said, “can make you a cherry Coke or a chocolate Coke or a phosphate — a chocolate phosphate or. “Vanilla phosphate,” the man helped, “cherry phosphate, orange phosphate, lime phosphate, lemon phosphate,

An egg phosphate is a phosphate to which an egg has been added in the proper manner. While an egg phosphate can be flavored with any syrup that makes a good phosphate, still the standard flavor by long usage has com to be orange […]

Word Forms

• phosphates
• phosphating
• phosphated

Synonyms for phosphate

Depending on context, synonyms include orthophosphate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include orthophosphate, polyphosphate, tris, phosphorus, phosphorous, phosphatic.

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