PPage 183
- English Word Phosphorating Definition of Phosphorate
- English Word Phosphoreous Definition Phosphorescent.
- English Word Phosphoresce Definition To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.
- English Word Phosphoresced Definition of Phosphoresce
- English Word Phosphorescence Definition The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.
- English Word Phosphorescence Definition A phosphoric light.
- English Word Phosphorescent Definition Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat.
- English Word Phosphorescent Definition A phosphorescent substance.
- English Word Phosphorescing Definition of Phosphoresce
- English Word Phosphori Definition of Phosphorus
- English Word Phosphoric Definition Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds.
- English Word Phosphoric Definition Phosphorescent.
- English Word Phosphorical Definition Phosphoric.
- English Word Phosphorite Definition A massive variety of apatite.
- English Word Phosphoritic Definition Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.
- English Word Phosphorize Definition To phosphorate.
- English Word Phosphorized Definition Containing, or impregnated with, phosphorus.
- English Word Phosphorogenic Definition Generating phosphorescence; as, phosphorogenic rays.
- English Word Phosphoroscope Definition An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.
- English Word Phosphorous Definition Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.
- English Word Phosphorus Definition The morning star; Phosphor.
- English Word Phosphorus Definition A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many other purposes. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P. Atomic weight 31.0.
- English Word Phosphorus Definition Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.
- English Word Phosphoryl Definition The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.
- English Word Phosphuret Definition A phosphide.
- English Word Phosphureted Definition Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus.
- English Word Photic Definition Relating to the production of light by the lower animals.
- English Word Photics Definition The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.
- English Word Photo Definition A contraction of Photograph.
- English Word Photo- Definition A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer.