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Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts..

Phosphorize :: Phosphorize (v. t.) To phosphorate.

Protagon :: Protagon (n.) A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies..

Fluophosphate :: Fluophosphate (n.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.

Cerebrose :: Cerebrose (n.) A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

Phosphorate :: Phosphorate (v. t.) To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its compounds; as, phosphorated oil..

Sulphophosphite :: Sulphophosphate (n.) A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.

Noctiluca :: Noctiluca (n.) A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucae..

Met- :: Met- () Having less than the highest number of hydroxyl groups; -- said of acids; as, metaphosphoric acid. Also used adjectively..

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)..

Aethogen :: Aethogen (n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride..

Phosphorus :: Phosphorus (n.) A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for man

Diamagnetic :: Diamagnetic (n.) Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet..

Phosphorogenic :: Phosphorogenic (a.) Generating phosphorescence; as, phosphorogenic rays..

Phosphoroscope :: Phosphoroscope (n.) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration..

Phosphorical :: Phosphorical (a.) Phosphoric.

Phosphatic :: Phosphatic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules..

Phosphoric :: Phosphoric (a.) Phosphorescent.

Noctilucin :: Noctilucin (n.) A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties..

Sulphosalt :: Sulphophosphorous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts..

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