sulphophosphoric

English

Alternative forms

• sulfophosphoric

Etymology

sulpho- +‎ phosphoric

Adjective

sulphophosphoric (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or designating a hypothetical thioacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known only in its salts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sulphophosphoric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)