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- Phosphoric - a. - Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds.
- Phosphoric - a. - Phosphorescent.
- Phosphorical - a. - Phosphoric.
- Fluophosphate - n. - A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
- Phosphorescent - a. - Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat.
- Phosphoresce - v. i. - To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.
- Hypophosphoric - a. - Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid.
- Phosphate - n. - A salt of phosphoric acid.
- Phosphorescence - n. - A phosphoric light.
- Metaphosphoric - a. - Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
- Hypophosphorous - a. - Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid.
- Sulphophosphoric - a. - Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.
- Lithophosphor - n. - A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat.
- Ortho- - - The one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid. Cf. Normal.
- Glacial - a. - Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
- Revert - v. i. - To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.