hypophosphite

noun

hypophosphite

noun

Etymology From hypo- + phosphite.

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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Any salt of hypophosphorous acid.

The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:

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