| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid.[Websters]. | |
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Date "HYPOPHOSPHORIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Note: Hypophosphoric \Hy`po*phos*phor"ic\, adjective. [Prefix hypo- phosphoric.]. (references) |
Common Expressions: HYPOPHOSPHORIC
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| Hypophosphoric acid | 1: (Chem.), an acid, P2H4O6 , produced by the slow oxidation of moist phosphorus, and isolated only as a solution in water. It is regarded as a condensation product of one molecule of phosphoric acid with one of phosphorous acid, by partial dehydration. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A crystalline tetrabasic acid (H4P2O6). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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