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Definition: Phosphoric |
PhosphoricAdjective1. Containing or characteristic of phosphorus; "phosphoric acid". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phosphoric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Etymology: Phosphoric \Phos*phor"ic\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression phosphorique.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Phosphoric acid is a mineral acid with the chemical formula H3PO4. Its main uses are in fertilizers and detergents, and in cleaning and rust-proofing agents. It is also used to acidify foods and beverages such as cola. It is prepared by adding sulphuric acid to calcium phosphate rock.
In its anhydrous form the acid is a white solid. In aqueous solution, the acid releases three hydronium (H+) ions.
The anion associated with phosphoric acid is called the phosphate ion, and is found pervasively in biology, especially in the compounds derived from phosphorylated sugars, such as DNA and RNA and adenosine triphosphate (e.g. ATP).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phosphoric acid."
Synonym: PhosphoricSynonym: phosphorous (adj). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. Section of the TVA's phosphoric acid plant operated in conjunction with the making of elemental phosphorus in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Glass of addiction" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Macroshot of a good glass of sugar caffeine and... phosphoric acid?! ." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The children heard the sputtering of the taper plunged into the phosphoric bottle |
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Business | China also is encouraging cooperation with foreign corporations for some chemical projects, such as defluorinated phosphoric acid hydrolith with a 100,000 ton annual production capacity, methionine with 20,000 ton annual production capacity, synthetic pyridine with a 8,000 ton annual production capacity, pentadiene carboxylic acid with a 5,000 ton annual production capacity, vitamin PP with 3,000 a ton annual production capacity as well as niacinamide production projects. (references) | |
Economic History | Senegal | ICS plans to double its production capacity of phosphoric acid from 330,000 MT to 600,000 MT by 2002. (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) | |
Morocco | The export of phosphates and its derivatives (phosphoric acid and fertilizer) account for about 1 6.9 percent of Moroccan exports. (references) | |
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| "Phosphoric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phosphoric" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
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Expressions using "phosphoric": creatine phosphoric acid ♦ glacial phosphoric acid ♦ Insoluble phosphoric acid ♦ phosphoric acid ♦ Phosphoric Acid Esters ♦ Phosphoric Acids ♦ Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases ♦ Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases ♦ phosphoric pig iron ♦ reverted phosphoric acid ♦ soluble phosphoric acid. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "phosphoric": semi-phosphoric. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "phosphoric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fosforik. (various references) | |
Arabic | فوسفوري (phosphorus). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдържащ петвалентен фосфор, фосфорен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 磷 (phosphorus), 含燐 . (various references) | |
Czech | fosforický (phosphorous). (various references) | |
Danish | phosphorsyreproces (phosphoric-acid process), phosphorsyreholdig væske (phosphoric acid liquid), phosphorsyreester (phosphoric ester), phosphorholdigt raajern (pig iron with high phosphoric content), regenerering of svovlsyre (regeneration of phosphoric acid), raajern med lavt phosphorindhold (pig iron with low phosphoric content), naar en standardproeve af kvarts behandles med forforsyre kan der iagtages en bamaerkelsesvaerdig nedgang i dens skadelige virkning overfor celler (the cytopathogenicity of the standard quartz sample can be greatly reduced by treatment with phosphoric acid), fosforsyrebrændselcelle (PAFC, phosphoric-acid fuel cell), fosforsyre (phosphoric acid), fosforraajern (high phosphorus, phosphoric iron, pig iron), fosforholdigt raajern (phosphoric pig iron). (various references) | |
Dutch | fosforzure cel (PAFC, phosphoric-acid fuel cell), de volgende worden beschouwd als reversibele inhibitoren : physostigmine, prostigmine, methyleenblauw en, van de fosforesters, parathion, systox en malathion (and among the phosphoric esters, and malathion, methylene blue, parathion, prostigmin(e), sistox, the following are regarded as reversible inhibitors:eserine(physostigmine)), fosfoorzuurprocédé (phosphoric-acid process), fosforester (phosphoric ester), fosforhoudend gieterijruwijzer (phosphoric pig iron), fosforhoudend ruwijzer (high phosphorus, phosphoric iron, pig iron), fosforzure brandstofcel (PAFC, phosphoric-acid fuel cell), wanneer het standaard-kwarts met fosforzuur wordt behandeld,kan men een duidelijke verlaging van het celbeschadigende effect waarnemen (the cytopathogenicity of the standard quartz sample can be greatly reduced by treatment with phosphoric acid), fosforzure vloeistof (phosphoric acid liquid), fosforzuur (phosphoric acid), hoog-fosforhoudend ruwijzer (phosphoric pig iron), licht fosforhoudend ruwijzer (pig iron with low phosphoric content), regeneratie van fosforzuur (regeneration of phosphoric acid), fosforruwijzer (pig iron with high phosphoric content). (various references) | |
Farsi | فسفری (Phosphorous), تابنده (Phosphorous, Spinner), شبیه فسفر, شب تاب (Phosphorescent). (various references) | |
Finnish | fosforiharkkorauta (Cleveland pig iron, high phosphorus, phosphoric iron, phosphoric pig iron, pig iron, semi-phosphoric pig iron), fosforihappo (phosphoric acid). (various references) | |
French | phosphorique. (various references) | |
German | phosphorhaltig. (various references) | |
Greek | φωσφορικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | זרחני (phosphorous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | foszfortartalmú (phosphorous). (various references) | |
Italian | processo con acido fosforico (phosphoric-acid process), pila ad acido fosforico (PAFC, phosphoric-acid fuel cell), sono considerati inibitori reversibili l'eserina,la prostigmina,il bleu di metilene,e fra gli esteri fosforici,il parathion,il sistox,il malathion (and among the phosphoric esters, and malathion, methylene blue, parathion, prostigmin(e), sistox, the following are regarded as reversible inhibitors:eserine(physostigmine)), soluzione di acido fosforico (phosphoric acid liquid), rigenerazione dell'acido fosforico (regeneration of phosphoric acid), quando il quarzo standard viene trattato con il metodo di disaggregazione all'acido fosforico, si puo' osservare una drastica diminuziome della sua azione nociva sulle cellule (the cytopathogenicity of the standard quartz sample can be greatly reduced by treatment with phosphoric acid), ghisa semifosforosa (pig iron with low phosphoric content), ghisa fosforosa (phosphoric pig iron, pig iron with high phosphoric content), ghisa Cleveland (Cleveland pig iron, high phosphorus, phosphoric iron, pig iron), estero fosforico (phosphoric ester), acido fosforico (phosphoric acid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 燐灰石 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りんかいせき. (various references) | |
Manx | fosfaaragh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | osphoricphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fosfórico. (various references) | |
Romanian | acid fosforic (phosphoric acid). (various references) | |
Russian | фосфорный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fosforni. (various references) | |
Spanish | fosfórico. (various references) | |
Swedish | fosforhaltig-, fosforescerande (noctilucous, phosphorescent). (various references) | |
Turkish | fosforik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фосфоруючий (phosphorescent, photogenic), фосфоричний. (various references) | |
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"Phosphoric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phosphonic, phosphore, Phosphoricum, Poshpura. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "phosphoric" (pronounced fÄ"sferik) |
| 3 | -er i k | choleric, Limerick, maverick, rhetoric. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-h-i-o-o-p-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: phosphor. | |
-3 letters: isochor, poorish. | |
-4 letters: chiros, chirps, choirs, cohosh, hippos, ichors, orchis, orphic, pooris, popish, scroop. | |
-5 letters: chips, chiro, chirp, choir, chops, cohos, coirs, coops, corps, crisp, crops, hippo, hooch, hoops, ichor, pisco, pooch, poohs, poops, poori, porch, props, proso, scoop, scrip, sopor, spoor. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-h-i-o-o-p-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: phosphoritic, photospheric. | |
+4 letters: phosphorescing, phosphorolytic. | |
+5 letters: morphophonemics, phosphocreatine, psychobiography. | |
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