[1825–35; meta- + phosphate]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: archaic, breakdown, electrolyte, runway, spiritualismmeta- is a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “alongwith,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model.Other words that use the affix meta- include: metacarpus, metagenesis, metalinguistics
Examples of 'metaphosphate' in a sentence
metaphosphate
The metaphosphate crystals gradually turned into the orthophosphate with the increasing of annealing time.
Yanling Liu, Feng Song, Guozhi Jia, Yanbang Zhang, Yi Tang 2017, 'Strong emission in Yb3+/Er3+ co-doped phosphate glass ceramics', Results in Physicshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379717306484. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
At the beginning of annealing, the metaphosphate crystals were firstly dissolved out.
Yanling Liu, Feng Song, Guozhi Jia, Yanbang Zhang, Yi Tang 2017, 'Strong emission in Yb3+/Er3+ co-doped phosphate glass ceramics', Results in Physicshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379717306484. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)