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Phosphorus. [Obs.] Addison.

ghness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin.

To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its compounds; as, phosphorated oil.

Phosphorescent. [Obs.]

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.

Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat. -- n.

Phosphorescent. "A phosphoric sea." Byron. Glacial phosphoric acid. (Chem.) (a) Metaphosphoric acid in the form of glassy semitransparent masses or sticks. (b) Pure normal phosphoric acid. -- Phosphoric acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, H3PO4, which is the most highly oxidized acid of phosphorus, and forms…

Phosphoric.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.

To phosphorate.

Containing, or impregnated with, phosphorus.

Generating phosphorescence; as, phosphorogenic rays.

An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.

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.

The morning star; Phosphor.

A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.

The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.

The act of freeing from phosphorous.