phosphate

phosphate

See also: Phosphate and phosphaté

English

phosphate group 2D structural formula

phosphate ion 3D structural formula

Etymology

From French phosphate. By surface analysis, phosph(orus) +‎ -ate (“salt or ester of an acid”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒsfeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑsfeɪt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

phosphate (plural phosphates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.
2. (agriculture) Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
3. Guano (containing high levels of phosphates and harvested for the fertiliser industry).
4. (US, regional, dated) A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
   • 1920, Irving P. Fox, The Spatula, page 27:

     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 […]

   • 2002, Michael Raleigh, In the castle of the Flynns, page 180:

     “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,

   • 2008, Kathryn Kysar, Riding shotgun: women write about their mothers, page 106:

     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.

Derived terms

• adenosine phosphate
• alkylglycerone phosphate synthase
• alkyl phosphate
• aluminophosphate
• ammonium phosphate
• ammonium phosphate
• biphosphate
• bisphosphate
• boron phosphate
• cadmium phosphate
• calcium dihydrogen phosphate
• calcium phosphate
• carbamoyl phosphate
• chalcogenophosphate
• chlorophosphate
• diammonium phosphate
• dihydrogen phosphate
• diphosphate
• disodium phosphate
• ferric phosphate
• ferrous phosphate
• fluophosphate
• fluorophosphate
• galactosephosphate
• glycerolphosphate
• halophosphate
• hexakisphosphate
• hexametaphosphate
• hexaphosphate
• high energy phosphate
• hydrogen phosphate
• hydroxyphosphate
• hydroxypropyl starch phosphate
• hypophosphate
• inorganic phosphate
• inositol phosphate
• iron phosphate
• isopropylphosphate
• magnesium phosphate
• metaphosphate
• monocalcium phosphate
• monophosphate
• monopotassium phosphate
• natrophosphate
• nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
• nonphosphate
• oligophosphate
• organophosphate
• organphosphate
• orthophosphate
• paraphosphate
• pentakisphosphate
• pentaphosphate
• phosphagen
• phosphataemia
• phosphatase
• phosphate acetyltransferase
• phosphate bond
• phosphated
• phosphated distarch phosphate
• phosphate glass
• phosphate island
• phosphatemia
• phosphatemia
• phosphate rock
• phosphatic
• phosphatide
• phosphaturia
• phosphoribosylpyrophosphate
• polyestradiol phosphate
• polyphosphate
• potassium titanyl phosphate
• pyrophosphate
• riboflavin-5-sodium phosphate
• selenophosphate
• silicophosphate
• sodium aluminium phosphate
• sodium dithiophosphate
• sodium hexametaphosphate
• sodium hydrogen phosphate
• sodium monofluorophosphate
• sodium phosphate
• sodium phosphate tribasic
• sodium trimetaphosphate
• sodium tripolyphosphate
• sugar phosphate
• superphosphate
• tetrakisphosphate
• tetraphosphate
• thiophosphate
• tributyl phosphate
• tricalcium phosphate
• tricresyl phosphate
• triose phosphate
• triosephosphate
• triphenylphosphate
• triphosphate
• trisodium phosphate
• trisodium phosphate dodecahydrate
• trisphosphate
• uranium phosphate
• uranyl phosphate
• vanadious phosphate

 

Translations

any salt or ester of phosphoric acid

Azerbaijani: fosfat Bashkir: фосфат (fosfat) Bulgarian: фосфат m (fosfat) Catalan: fosfat m Chinese: Mandarin: 磷酸鹽／磷酸盐 (zh) (línsuānyán) Czech: fosforečnan m, fosfát m Danish: fosfat (da) n Esperanto: fosfato (eo) Finnish: fosfaatti (fi) French: phosphate (fr) m Galician: fosfato m German: Phosphat (de) n Greek: φωσφορικό άλας (el) n (fosforikó álas) Hungarian: foszfát (hu) Ido: fosfato (io) Irish: fosfáit f Italian: fosfato (it) m Japanese: 燐酸塩 (りんさんえん, rinsan'en) Kazakh: фосфат (fosfat) Kyrgyz: фосфат (ky) (fosfat) Maori: pākawa tūtaewhetū Norwegian: Bokmål: fosfat n Nynorsk: fosfat n Occitan: fosfat m Polish: fosforan (pl) m Portuguese: fosfato (pt) m Romanian: fosfat (ro) m Russian: фосфа́т (ru) m (fosfát) Spanish: fosfato (es) m Swedish: fosfat (sv) n Ukrainian: фосфат m (fosfat) Yiddish: פֿאָספֿאַט‎ m (fosfat)

Verb

phosphate (third-person singular simple present phosphates, present participle phosphating, simple past and past participle phosphated)

1. To treat or coat with a phosphate or with phosphoric acid

Translations

to treat or coat with phosphate

Catalan: fosfatar (ca) Italian: fosfatare Romanian: fosfata (ro)

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French

Etymology

phosphore +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔs.fat/

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Noun

phosphate m (plural phosphates)

1. phosphate

Descendants

• → English: phosphate
• → Portuguese: fosfato

Further reading

• “phosphate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.