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English
Etymology
From hypo- + phosphite.
Pronunciation
Noun
hypophosphite (plural hypophosphites)
- (chemistry) Any salt of hypophosphorous acid.
1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696: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.
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