Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hypophosphite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of hypophosphoric acid.
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- noun inorganic chemistry The
oxyanion ofphosphorus P2O64- derived fromhypophosphoric acid ; anysalt containing this anion
Etymologies
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hypo- + phosphate
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Examples
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Warm baths, friction, and stimulating lotions and cosmetics may be here employed, together with a course of some mild chalbeate (as the lactate, protophosphate, or ammonia-citrate of iron) and hypophosphate of soda.
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