phosphoret
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A compound of phosphorus that does not include oxygen.
Example Sentences
- "The phosphoret of platina detonates frongly when it is thrown on nitre in fusion."
- "You only throw a piece of phosphoret of lime into a glass of water, and bubbles of fire immediately issue from it."
- "In the puddling furnace the phosphorus exists as a metallic phosphoret."
- "Iron is capable of combining with phosphorus; but the proportions of the elements of phosphoret of iron have not been ascertained; nor is it known whether more than one compound of this kind exists."