Synonyms for phosphate
ˈfɒs feɪtphos·phate

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1. phosphate, orthophosphate, inorganic phosphatenoun

   a salt of phosphoric acid

   Synonyms:
   inorganic phosphate, orthophosphate

2. phosphatenoun

   carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid

   Synonyms:
   inorganic phosphate, orthophosphate

Matched Categories

1. • Salt
   • Soft Drink

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1. List of paraphrases for "phosphate":

   phosphates, phosphatic, isopropyl, phosphorus, polyphosphate

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How to use phosphate in a sentence?

1. Jeff Wright:

   We've just found a way to make that a much faster process. Driving healthy calcium and phosphate minerals into your enamel, and through a natural process it will bind on and add to the enamel that's there.

2. Micheal Austin:

   It is also the first electric vehicle with an entirely environmentally stable and inert battery chemistry, there are no heavy metals or caustic materials used in the manufacturing of the BYD iron-phosphate battery.

3. David Catling:

   The extremely high phosphate levels in these lakes and ponds would have driven reactions that put phosphorus into the molecular building blocks of RNA, proteins and fats, all of which were needed to get life going.

4. Energy Minister Slim Feriani:

   Tunisia is no longer on the global phosphate production radar.