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Phosphorous   Listen
adjective
Phosphorous  adj.  (Chem.) Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Phosphorous" Quotes from Famous Books



... rather meagre in nutriment; it contains but little phosphorous matter, with less carbon than other cereals, and is best and most generally employed as a diet ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... two parts of finely pulverised manganese with one part of the phosphorous acid of urine in the same way as is indicated in the preceding paragraph, I ...
— Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 • Carl Wilhelm Scheele



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