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Any salt of hypophosphorous acid
The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
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hypophosphites
Etymology
From hypo- + phosphite.