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Meanings of phosphates in English

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Salts or esters of phosphoric acid.

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        1
        Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric acid, five.
        The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots / 16t...
        2
        Turnip: phosphates, thirteen; potash, thirty-nine; soda, five; lime, ten; sulphuric acid, fourteen.
        The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots / 16t...
        3
        The carbonates and phosphates of the alkaline earths are insoluble in water.
        A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B...
        4
        The isolated use of IABP suggested no protection of the energy-rich phosphates.
        Pubmed
        5
        Iran will also give information on the extraction of uranium from phosphates.
        Reuters
        6
        In the absence of ferric salts, phosphates and arsenates count as sulphur.
        A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
        7
        A light railway leads up to the hills where the phosphates lie.
        Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
        8
        And she had looked quite queer when she spoke about the phosphates.
        Lady Baltimore
        9
        Hence the phosphates, potash manures and lime are desirable for these crops.
        The First Book of Farming
        10
        It said phosphates from detergents are a significant contributor to phosphate-based water pollution.
        Reuters
        11
        Over the past 30 years it has suffered severe over-enrichment, principally from phosphates.
        The Irish Times
        12
        Also the phosphates and borates that fuse in the bead without suffering decomposition.
        A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe / B...
        13
        Sugars and phosphates form the handrails, and bases form the steps.
        Grave Secrets
        14
        The heptose-bound phosphates in the inner core region were also important for activation.
        Pubmed
        15
        Blue-green algae feed off nitrates from the air and phosphates from the water.
        The Guardian
        16
        This bed of phosphates was found everywhere in the Greensand, underlying the Chalk.
        Town Geology
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