Word Meanings - SULPHOPHOSPHORIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.

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• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SULPHACID
  An acid in which, to a greater or less extent, sulphur plays a part analogous to that of oxygen in an oxyacid; thus, thiosulphuric and sulpharsenic acids are sulphacids; -- called also sulphoacid. See the Note under Acid, n., 2.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• DESIGNATORY
  Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
• PHOSPHORUS
  A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen
• ANALOGOUS
  Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J.
• PHOSPHORIC
  1. Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds. 2. Phosphorescent. "A phosphoric sea." Byron.
• PHOSPHORICAL
  Phosphoric.
• DESIGNATION
  1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of
• PHOSPHORUS STEEL
  A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.
• PARAPHOSPHORIC
  Pyrophosphoric.
• METAPHOSPHORIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
• LITHOPHOSPHORIC
  Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.
• EPSOM SALTS; EPSOM SALT
  Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate
• UNKNOWN
  Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. Camden.
• GLAUBER'S SALT; GLAUBER'S SALTS
  Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts." Note: It occurs naturally and abundantly in some mineral springs, and in many salt deposits, as
• PREINDESIGNATE
  Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.
• WELL-KNOWN
  Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.
• HYPOPHOSPHORIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid. Hypophosphoric acid , an acid, P2H4O6, produced by the slow oxidation of moist phosphorus, and isolated
• BLACK SALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• ABRAUM; ABRAUM SALTS
  A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
• UNBEKNOWN
  Not known; unknown.