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decaphosphate

noun

Etymology

From deca- + phosphate.

  1. derived from phosphate
  2. prefixed as decaphosphate — “deca + phosphate”

Definitions

  1. A substance containing ten phosphate groups [(PO₄)₁₀] or [P₁₀O₄₀].

  2. A polyphosphate or oligophosphate containing a condensed chain of ten phosphate groups

    • the believed they had obtained in a crystalline form the compounds which we now know as ... decaphosphate, Na₁₂P₁₀O₃₁
    • Examples of the polyphosphates are sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate and sodium decaphosphate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for decaphosphate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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