Word Meanings - SULPHOPHOSPHOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.

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• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• DESIGNATORY
  Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
• PHOSPHORUS
  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
• ANALOGOUS
  Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J.
• PHOSPHOROUS
  Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.
• DESIGNATION
  1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of
• PHOSPHORUS STEEL
  A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.
• SULPHOPHOSPHOROUS
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
• EPSOM SALTS; EPSOM SALT
  Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate
• UNKNOWN
  Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. Camden.
• GLAUBER'S SALT; GLAUBER'S SALTS
  Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts." Note: It occurs naturally and abundantly in some mineral springs, and in many salt deposits, as
• PREINDESIGNATE
  Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.
• WELL-KNOWN
  Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.
• BLACK SALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• ABRAUM; ABRAUM SALTS
  A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
• UNBEKNOWN
  Not known; unknown.
• HYPOPHOSPHOROUS
  Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid. Hypophosphorous acid , an acid, H3PO2, whose salts are produced by the action of barium hygrate on phosphorus. It may