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A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.

That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.

lauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.

r islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.

A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.

A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.

e color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.

A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

cosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic- ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the a…

A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- phosphate of the cerium metals.

A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.

A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate.

Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. Phosphatic diathesis (Med.), a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine.

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

d acid of phosphorus, and forms an important and extensive series of compounds, viz., the phosphates. -- Soluble phosphoric acid, Insoluble phosphoric acid (Agric. Chem.), phosphoric acid combined in acid salts, or in neutral or basic salts, which are respectively soluble and insoluble in water or in plant juices. --…