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UK
/fˈɒsfɐ/
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[ US /ˈfɑsˌfɔɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɑsˌfɔɹ/ ]
NOUN
- a synthetic substance that is fluorescent or phosphorescent; used to coat the screens of cathode ray tubes
How To Use phosphor In A Sentence
- Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
- What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
- Phosphorus was the nutrient element limiting the eutrophication of the lake.
- Trophic means concerned with nutrition, and oligotrophic lakes are poorly fed; that is, they have a low concentration of nutrient elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus.
- The bending property in transverse direction of tin-phosphor bronze strip is a very important quality index which has a great inference on the quality of final products.
- The most important of these are antimony, phosphorus, tin, and arsenic, with manganese and silicon having a small effect.
- There is no evidence of which I am aware to associate exposure to organophosphorus compounds, including nerve agents, with asthma.
- Is not this effect nearly similar to that produced by the combination of phosphorus and sulphur, or, more properly speaking, the _phosphuret of sulphur_? Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
- To them is due the discovery of antimony, sulphuric ether and phosphorus, the cupellation of gold and silver, the determining of the properties of saltpetre and its use in gunpowder, and the discovery of the distillation of essential oils. The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities
- It results from the reaction of phosphorus with iron and aluminum in acidic soils, and calcium in alkaline soils.