metaphosphate

[ met-uh-fos-feyt ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a salt or ester of metaphosphoric acid.

metaphosphate

/ ˌmɛtəˈfɒsfeɪt /

noun

1. any salt of metaphosphoric acid

Word History and Origins

Origin of metaphosphate¹

First recorded in 1825–35; meta- + phosphate

Example Sentences

The metaphosphate story was narrated to the 50 sightseers last week by the Melon Institute's Director Edward Ray Weidlem, 48, co-author of Science in Action, who next week will receive the Chemical Industry Medal for 1935.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most but not all of the Institute's output is highly specialized of interest mainly to the client it benefits' Sodium metaphosphate was for a century considered a chemical curiosity.

From Time Magazine Archive

PO4, it is decomposed into the metaphosphate of sodium, NaPO3, CoO + NaPO3 = CoNaPO4.

From Project Gutenberg

If the fluorine is too minute to produce either of the above reactions, then the following process, recommended by Plattner, should be followed: the assay should be mixed with metaphosphate of soda, formed by heating the microcosmic salt to dull redness.

From Project Gutenberg