Definition of Metaphosphates

1. Noun. (plural of metaphosphate) ¹

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Definition of Metaphosphates

1. metaphosphate [n] - See also: metaphosphate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaphosphates

metaphilosophy
metaphor
metaphore
metaphoric
metaphorical
metaphorical extension
metaphorical theism
metaphorically
metaphoricity
metaphorise
metaphorist
metaphorists
metaphorize
metaphors
metaphosphate
metaphosphates (current term)
metaphosphoric
metaphosphoric acid
metaphrase
metaphrased
metaphrases
metaphrasing
metaphrasis
metaphrast
metaphrastic
metaphrastical
metaphrasts
metaphyseal
metaphyseal dysplasia
metaphysial

Literary usage of Metaphosphates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemistry, General, Medical, and Pharmaceutical: Including the Chemistry of by John Attfield (1873)
"Possibly the pyrophosphates are only compounds or orthophosphates with metaphosphates ... metaphosphates ..."

2. Notes on Qualitative Analysis: Concise and Explanatory by Henry John Horstman Fenton (1899)
"Solutions of metaphosphates (eg NaPO,) give with Silver nitrate, white ppt. of silver metaphosphate ..."

3. Elements of Inorganic Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science by Thomas Graham (1858)
"... of earthy and metallic salts, metaphosphate of soda throws down insoluble hydrated metaphosphates, of which the physical condition is remarkable. ..."

4. A Manual of Chemistry, Descriptive and Theoretical by William Odling (1861)
"The circumstances under which pyrophosphates become orthophosphates and metaphosphates have been previously considered. ..."

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