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(chemistry) Pertaining to the element phosphorus; containing phosphorus, especially in its higher valency (5)..
An old man to whom a few drops of phosphoric ether had been administered experienced repeated and imperious venereal wants.
I refer to the light in the tail of a glow-worm […] first, that it is phosphoric; secondly, that its use is to attract the male insect.
[T]he gulf beneath blended in the darkness, till but one atmosphere seemed both above and below, sometimes illumined by flashes of phosphoric light—meteors that might have suited sea or sky, and, broken by two or three ridges of foam, seen in obscurity, like lines of snow.
Use phosphoric when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Phosphoric means (chemistry) Pertaining to the element phosphorus; containing phosphorus, especially in its higher valency (5)..
Common synonyms include phosphorous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
An old man to whom a few drops of phosphoric ether had been administered experienced repeated and imperious venereal wants.
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