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Relating to or of the nature of a phosphor; phosphorescent. In later use chiefly literary.
Combined chemically with phosphorus.
Of or relating to phosphates; of the nature of or containing a phosphate or phosphates.
Of or relating to phosphonitriles; designating compounds containing the group —N=P— . Cf. phosphazene, n.