phosphate
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French phosphate. By surface analysis, phosphoric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Noun
phosphate (plural phosphates)
- (chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.
- 2009 February 26, Julie Scelfo, “When It Comes to Detergents, What’s the Least Irresponsible Choice?”, in The New York Times:
- Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.
- (agriculture) Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
- Guano (containing high levels of phosphates and harvested for the fertiliser industry).
- (US, regional, dated) A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
- 1920, Irving P. Fox, The Spatula, page 27:
- 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 […]
- 2002, Michael Raleigh, In the castle of the Flynns, page 180:
- “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,
- 2008, Kathryn Kysar, Riding shotgun: women write about their mothers, page 106:
- 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.
Derived terms
- adenosine phosphate
- alkylglycerone phosphate synthase
- alkyl phosphate
- aluminophosphate
- ammonium phosphate
- 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
- 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
- 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
- tributyl phosphate
- tricalcium phosphate
- tricresyl phosphate
- triose phosphate
- triosephosphate
- triosephosphateisomerase
- triphenylphosphate
- triphosphate
- trisodium phosphate
- trisodium phosphate dodecahydrate
- trisphosphate
- trithiophosphate
- uranium phosphate
- uranyl phosphate
- vanadious phosphate
Translations
any salt or ester of phosphoric acid
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Etymology 2
From phosphoric acid + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
phosphate (third-person singular simple present phosphates, present participle phosphating, simple past and past participle phosphated)
- To treat or coat with a phosphate or phosphoric acid.
Translations
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
phosphate m (plural phosphates)
Descendants
Further reading
- “phosphate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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