Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salt, ester, or anion of metaphosphoric acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt formed by the union of metaphosphoric acid with a base.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any
salt orester ofmetaphosphoric acid .
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Examples
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Onions coincidentally contain a lot of potassium metaphosphate (KPO3), which, when combined with all the water soaked up from the Gatorade, is used to produce even more KH2PO4!
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After sitting three to four hours in a low-flow basin to remove mud, the water is sent through a filter and treated again with chlorine, a shot of fluoride and metaphosphate to prevent any aging lead and copper pipes from contaminating the water.
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