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单词 phosphoric
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Definition of phosphoric in English:

phosphoric

adjective fɒsˈfɒrɪkfɑsˈfɔrɪk
  • 1Relating to or containing phosphorus.

    the process enabled the local phosphoric ore to be used for steel-making
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 3,500 million years ago in some warm little pond, with ammonia, phosphoric salts, light, heat etc. present, a protein compound was chemically formed to undergo.
    • A soldier stepped on his head, he said, and someone broke a phosphoric light and spilled the chemicals on him.
    • This increased pollution in the water body by raising the phosphoric content in the lake, thereby encouraging weed growth.
    • It included: ‘Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees.’
    • Observers, however, revealed some irregularities, including the use of wooden and thus non-transparent ballot boxes and a weakened solution of phosphoric ink.
    1. 1.1Chemistry Of phosphorus with a valency of five.
      Compare with phosphorous
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For instance, the phosphoric compounds or polyvalent metal salts may be added to a water system continuously or intermittently to maintain their necessary concentrations.
      • Just as sulfur forms sulfurous and sulfuric compounds, phosphorus forms phosphorous and phosphoric compounds.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French phosphorique, from phosphore 'phosphorus'.

Rhymes

aleatoric, allegoric, anaphoric, camphoric, categoric, choric, Doric, euphoric, historic, metaphoric, meteoric, phantasmagoric, pyrophoric, semaphoric, sophomoric, theophoric, Warwick, Yorick
 
 

Definition of phosphoric in US English:

phosphoric

adjectivefɑsˈfɔrɪkfäsˈfôrik
  • 1Relating to or containing phosphorus.

    the process enabled the local phosphoric ore to be used for steel-making
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It included: ‘Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees.’
    • 3,500 million years ago in some warm little pond, with ammonia, phosphoric salts, light, heat etc. present, a protein compound was chemically formed to undergo.
    • This increased pollution in the water body by raising the phosphoric content in the lake, thereby encouraging weed growth.
    • A soldier stepped on his head, he said, and someone broke a phosphoric light and spilled the chemicals on him.
    • Observers, however, revealed some irregularities, including the use of wooden and thus non-transparent ballot boxes and a weakened solution of phosphoric ink.
    1. 1.1Chemistry Of phosphorus with a valence of five.
      Compare with phosphorous
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For instance, the phosphoric compounds or polyvalent metal salts may be added to a water system continuously or intermittently to maintain their necessary concentrations.
      • Just as sulfur forms sulfurous and sulfuric compounds, phosphorus forms phosphorous and phosphoric compounds.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French phosphorique, from phosphore ‘phosphorus’.

 
 
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