Phosphate

//ˈfɑsfeɪt//

"Phosphate" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Tomatoes like a little phosphate.

In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.

Earnings from Nauru's export of phosphate remains an important source of income.

Alveolar bone has a high mineral content, mainly calcium and phosphate.

Algeria is building a phosphate plant in Tebessa.

Algeria and China are building a huge phosphate plant in Tebessa.

Algeria wants to increase its phosphate production.

Western Sahara has rich phosphate deposits.

Western Sahara has a huge deposit of pure phosphate that's easy to extract.

One of the largest phosphate mines on the planet is located in Western Sahara but it's illegally plundered by Morocco.

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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.

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,

You order California burgers for us both, even though I don't eat lettuce or tomato, then you order me a phosphate, cherry, a dreadful fizzy drink you say you always loved. It's bitter, bubbly, unbearable; but, thirsty for your past, force myself to drink it.

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