phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒsfeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɑsfeɪt/
Forms: form: phosphates
Etymology: From French phosphate. By surface analysis, phosphoric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.
ref: 2009 February 26, Julie Scelfo, “When It Comes to Detergents, What’s the Least Irresponsible Choice?”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
glosses: Guano (containing high levels of phosphates and harvested for the fertiliser industry).
examples: text: An egg phosphate is a phosphate to which an egg has been added in the proper manner. While an egg phosphate can be flavored with any syrup that makes a good phosphate, still the standard flavor by long usage has com to be orange […]
ref: 1920, Irving P. Fox, The Spatula, page 27:
text: “This man here,” she said, “can make you a cherry Coke or a chocolate Coke or a phosphate — a chocolate phosphate or. “Vanilla phosphate,” the man helped, “cherry phosphate, orange phosphate, lime phosphate, lemon phosphate,
ref: 2002, Michael Raleigh, In the castle of the Flynns, page 180:
text: You order California burgers for us both, even though I don't eat lettuce or tomato, then you order me a phosphate, cherry, a dreadful fizzy drink you say you always loved. It's bitter, bubbly, unbearable; but, thirsty for your past, force myself to drink it.
ref: 2008, Kathryn Kysar, Riding shotgun: women write about their mothers, page 106:
glosses: A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
Derived terms: acylphosphate
adenosine phosphate
alkylglycerone phosphate synthase
alkyl phosphate
aluminophosphate
ammonium phosphate
aryldialkylphosphatase
biphosphate
bisphosphate
boron phosphate
borophosphate
cadmium phosphate
calcium dihydrogen phosphate
calcium phosphate
carbamoyl phosphate
chalcogenophosphate
chlorophosphate
creatine phosphate
creatinolfosfate
cyclophosphate
decaphosphate
diammonium phosphate
dichlorophosphate
dichlorothiophosphate
difluorodioxophosphate
difluorodithiophosphate
difluorophosphate
difluorothiophosphate
dihydrogen phosphate
diphosphate
disodium hydrogen phosphate
disodium phosphate
dithiophosphate
ecothiopate
ferric phosphate
ferrous phosphate
fluophosphate
fluorophosphate
fosfestrol
fructose 6-phosphate
galactosephosphate
glucose 6-phosphate
glucose-6-phosphate isomerase
glycerolphosphate
halophosphate
hexakisphosphate
hexametaphosphate
hexaphosphate
high energy phosphate
hydrogen phosphate
hydroxyphosphate
hydroxypropyl starch phosphate
hypophosphate
inorganic phosphate
inositol phosphate
iron phosphate
isopropylphosphate
magnesium phosphate
metaphosphate
metrifonate
monocalcium phosphate
monophosphate
monopotassium phosphate
natrophosphate
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
nonphosphate
oligophosphate
organophosphate
organphosphate
orthophosphate
paraphosphate
pentakisphosphate
pentaphosphate
pentose phosphate pathway
phosphagen
phosphataemia
phosphatase
phosphate acetyltransferase
phosphate bond
phosphate butyryltransferase
phosphated
phosphated distarch phosphate
phosphate glass
phosphate island
phosphatemia
phosphate rock
phosphatian
phosphatic
phosphatide
phosphatise
phosphatization
phosphatize
phosphaturia
phosphoribosylpyrophosphate
polyestradiol phosphate
polyphosphate
potassium titanyl phosphate
pyrophosphate
quadriphosphate
radiophosphate
riboflavin-5-sodium phosphate
selenophosphate
silicophosphate
sodium aluminium phosphate
sodium dithiophosphate
sodium hexametaphosphate
sodium hydrogen phosphate
sodium monofluorophosphate
sodium phosphate
sodium phosphate tribasic
sodium trimetaphosphate
sodium tripolyphosphate
sugar phosphate
superphosphate
tetrakisphosphate
tetraphosphate
tetrathiophosphate
thermophosphate
thiophosphate
trialkylphosphate
tributyl phosphate
tricalcium phosphate
tricresyl phosphate
triosephosphate
triose phosphate
triosephosphateisomerase
triphenylphosphate
triphosphate
trisodium phosphate
trisodium phosphate dodecahydrate
trisphosphate
trithiophosphate
uranium phosphate
uranyl phosphate
vanadious phosphate