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noun
Any of several ill-defined polymers of orthophosphoric acid; they are viscous, hygroscopic liquids
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
a series of oxyacids of phosphorus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: oxyacid, oxygen acid
Narrower terms: metaphosphoric acid, pyrophosphoric acid
History
From poly- + phosphoric acid.
