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hypophosphite

C2 Topic:Materials & Substances
US /ˌhaɪ.poʊˈfɑːs.faɪt/ UK /ˌhaɪ.pəʊˈfɒs.faɪt/

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    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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Forms hypophosphites

Etymology

From hypo- + phosphite.

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Materials & Substances

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