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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To change into phosphates or a phosphate.
- transitive verb To treat with phosphate or phosphoric acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to the form of a phosphate.
- To treat with phosphates, as with phosphatic medicines or fertilizing phosphates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
convert something into aphosphate - verb to
treat something with phosphate orphosphoric acid
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