Tomatoes like a little phosphate.
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Phosphate
//ˈfɑsfeɪt//
Synonyms for "phosphate" (14 found)
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41 translations across 33 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Bashkir
1 entries- фосфат noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Bulgarian
1 entries- фосфат noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Catalan
2 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
- fosfatar verb (to treat or coat with phosphate)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 磷酸鹽 /磷酸盐 noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Czech
2 entries- fosforečnan noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
- fosfát noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Danish
1 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Esperanto
1 entries- fosfato noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Finnish
1 entries- fosfaatti noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
French
2 entries- phosphate noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
- phosphater verb (to treat or coat with phosphate)
Galician
1 entries- fosfato noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
German
1 entries- Phosphat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Greek
1 entries- φωσφορικό άλας noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Hungarian
1 entries- foszfát noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Ido
1 entries- fosfato noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Irish
1 entries- fosfáit noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Italian
2 entries- fosfato noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
- fosfatare verb (to treat or coat with phosphate)
Japanese
1 entries- 燐酸塩 noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Kazakh
1 entries- фосфат noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- фосфат noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Māori
1 entries- pākawa tūtaewhetū noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Occitan
1 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Polish
3 entries- fosforan noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
- okrywać fosforanem verb (to treat or coat with phosphate)
- okryć fosforanem verb (to treat or coat with phosphate)
Portuguese
1 entries- fosfato noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Romanian
2 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
- fosfata verb (to treat or coat with phosphate)
Russian
1 entries- фосфа́т noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Spanish
2 entries- fosfato noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
- fosfatar verb (to treat or coat with phosphate)
Swedish
1 entries- fosfat noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фосфат noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Welsh
1 entries- ffosffad noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאָספֿאַט noun (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.
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Earnings from Nauru's export of phosphate remains an important source of income.
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Alveolar bone has a high mineral content, mainly calcium and phosphate.
Source: tatoeba (9013228)
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