Definition of phosphor

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Phosphor (n.) Phosphorus.

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Dipyre :: Dipyre (n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent..
Sulphophosphite :: Sulphophosphate (n.) A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.
Organogen :: Organogen (n.) A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc..
Match :: Match (n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium..
Pyrophorus :: Pyrophorus (n.) Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead..
Metavanadic :: Metavanadic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid..
Phosphorical :: Phosphorical (a.) Phosphoric.
Phosphureted :: Phosphureted (a.) Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus..
Phosphoroscope :: Phosphoroscope (n.) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration..
Lecithin :: Lecithin (n.) A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles..
Phosphorating :: Phosphorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Phosphorat.
Pyrophosphate :: Pyrophosphate (n.) A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.
Metantimonic :: Metantimonic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3)..
Phosphorescence :: Phosphorescence (n.) A phosphoric light.
Fluophosphate :: Fluophosphate (n.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
Metalloid :: Metalloid (n.) Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids..
Phosphori :: Phosphori (pl. ) of Phosphoru.
Saturate :: Saturate (v. t.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine..
Pyrosome :: Pyrosome (n.) Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent..
Hypophosphate :: Hypophosphate (n.) A salt of hypophosphoric acid.
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