Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to, produced from, or resembling phosphorus or phosphoric acid.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to metaphosphoric acid
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called
glacial phosphoric acid . Compare the tribasicorthophosphoric acid .
Etymologies
- From meta- + phosphoric (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While the secondary phosphates, on heating, give salts of pyrophosphoric acid, the primary phosphates yield salts of metaphosphoric acid.”
“These oxides often give a characteristic color to the clear borax glass, and borax beads are therefore often used in testing for the presence of metals, instead of the metaphosphoric acid bead already described.”
“P_ {2} O_ {5} + H_ {2} O = 2HPO_ {3} (metaphosphoric acid).”
“It is precipitated by hydrochloric, nitric, picric and the metaphosphoric acids.”
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meta-, met-
denoting a change; denoting position behind,after, or beyond; denoting something of a higher or second order
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Adjectival Arcana
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