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| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Rock that contains one or more phosphatic minerals of sufficient purity and quantity to permit its commercial use as a source of phosphatic compounds or elemental phosphorus. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Any rock that contains one or more phosphatic minerals of sufficient purity and quantity to permit its commercial use as a source of phosphatic compounds or elemental phosphorus. About 90% of the world's production is sedimentary phosphate rock, or phosphorite; the remainder is igneous rockrich in apatite. Syn:rock phosphate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PHOSPHATE ROCK |
| Specialty definitions using "PHOSPHATE ROCK": CONCENTRATOR OPERATOR ♦ MILLER I ♦ Nonrenewable resources ♦ Phosphogypsum Piles, PHOSPHORIC-ACID OPERATOR, Prayon process ♦ SCREEN OPERATOR, SECOND OPERATOR, MILL TENDER, SUPERVISOR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, SUPERVISOR, SINTERING PLANT. (references) |
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Economic History | Kiribati | Kiribati contains Kiritimati (Christmas Island), the largest coral atoll in the world, and Banaba (Ocean Island), one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific. (references) |
Senegal | Senegal has striven to strengthen the sector by integrating upstream activities (phosphate rock mining) and downstream (fertilizer and phosphoric acid) processing operations. (references) | |
Brazil | Brazil is a major producer of several minerals, especially iron ore, gold, bauxite, kaolin, manganese, phosphate rock and niobium. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
phosphate rock soft | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PHOSPHATE ROCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | phosphorsur bjergart (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fosfaatgesteente (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raakafosfaatti (phosphatic rock, phosphatite), kalsiumfosfaattipitoinen kivilaji (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | roche phosphatée (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Phosphatgestein (phosphatic rock, phosphatite), Phosphatfels (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πέτρωμα φωσφορικών αλάτων (phosphatic rock, phosphatite), φωσφορούχο πέτρωμα (phosphatic rock, phosphatite), φωσφορίτης (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fosforite (phosphatic rock, phosphatite, phosphorite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osphatephay ockray fosforite (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) roca fosfatada (phosphatic rock, phosphatite). (various references) fosforit (phosphorite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-k-o-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: apostrophe, photophase. | |
-4 letters: copperahs, crapshoot, heptarchs, packhorse, phosphate, phosphore, reaphooks, shortcake, spaceport. | |
-5 letters: apocopes, caretook, chapters, cheroots, choppers, copastor, copperah, copperas, hatchers, heptarch, hockshop, hoopster, hootches, hotcakes, patchers, phorates, phosphor, poachers, postrace, precooks, prepacks, prophase, prophets, prospect, reaphook, shoepack, sprocket, thoraces, trappose. | |
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