hypophosphite

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Etymology

From hypo- +‎ phosphite.

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Noun

hypophosphite (plural hypophosphites)

  1. (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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