Having less than the highest number of hydroxyl groups; -- said of acids; as, metaphosphoric acid.
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.
Metaphosphoric acid in the form of glassy semitransparent masses or sticks.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.
It crystallizes in large transparent prisms, which melt on heating and decompose, leaving a residue of metaphosphoric acid, (HPO3).
From the solution of this salt in cold water, a solution of pure metaphosphoric acid may be obtained, as above, by means of nitrate or acetate of lead and sulphuretted hydrogen.
These oxides often give a characteristic color to the clear borax glass, and borax beads are therefore often used in testing for the presence of metals, instead of the metaphosphoric acid bead already described.
While the secondary phosphates, on heating, give salts of pyrophosphoric acid, the primary phosphates yield salts of metaphosphoric acid.
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