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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros) Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor. Latin phōsphorusder. French phosphore French -ate French phosphateder. English phosphate From French phosphate. By surface analysis, phosphoric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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Definitions

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Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.
- Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.
- Bony fishes were judicious in their use of phosphate as a building material: their teeth, a few parts of the skeleton, and that was it.
Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
Guano (containing high levels of phosphates and harvested for the fertiliser industry).
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  A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based…
  A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
  - An egg phosphate is a phosphate to which an egg has been added in the proper manner. While an egg phosphate can be flavored with any syrup that makes a good phosphate, still the standard flavor by long usage has com to be orange […]
  - “This man here,” she said, “can make you a cherry Coke or a chocolate Coke or a phosphate — a chocolate phosphate or. “Vanilla phosphate,” the man helped, “cherry phosphate, orange phosphate, lime phosphate, lemon phosphate,
2. To treat or coat with a phosphate or phosphoric acid.

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Derived

acylphosphate, adenosine phosphate, alkylglycerone phosphate synthase, alkyl phosphate, aluminophosphate, ammonium phosphate, aryldialkylphosphatase, biphosphate, bisphosphate, boron phosphate, borophosphate, cadmium phosphate, calcium dihydrogen phosphate, calcium phosphate, carbamoyl phosphate, chalcogenophosphate, chlorophosphate, creatine phosphate, creatinolfosfate, cyclophosphate, decaphosphate, diammonium phosphate, dichlorophosphate, dichlorothiophosphate, difluorodioxophosphate, difluorodithiophosphate, difluorophosphate, difluorothiophosphate, dihydrogen phosphate, diphosphate, disodium hydrogen phosphate, disodium phosphate, dithiophosphate, ecothiopate, ferric phosphate, ferrous phosphate, fluophosphate, fluorophosphate, fosfestrol, fructose 6-phosphate · +95 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at phosphate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at phosphate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at phosphate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.