Definitions for phosphate

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phosphate phos·phate

Spelling: [fos-feyt]

IPA: /ˈfɒs feɪt/

Phosphate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 342 anagrams from letters in phosphate (aehhoppst).

Definitions for phosphate

noun

1. Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.
2. Agriculture. a fertilizing material containing compounds of phosphorus.
3. a carbonated drink of water and fruit syrup containing a little phosphoric acid.

Origin of phosphate

First recorded in 1785-95; phosph- + -ate²

Examples for phosphate

This, however, is not all; for the decomposition of sugar a phosphate is also indispensable.

On the other hand, there are phosphate compounds that act as poisons.

Rub the phosphate with the water, add the acid and filter into the syrup.

Until a year ago, phosphate mining had left gashes up to dozens of meters deep here.

After the phosphate is reduced to powder, it is mixed with acid.

phosphate of protoxide of manganese; Manganesii phosphas, L. Prep.

If the phosphate of lime in the manure, containing 40 per cent.

A slight excess of phosphate of ammonia aids the crystallisation.

What the birds required was phosphate of lime, and the bones gave them that.

Maybe it was only the name of a man, or a grass, or a sort of phosphate.