phosphatic

[fos-fat-ik, -fey-tik]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or containing phosphates.

   phosphatic slag.

Other Word Forms

• nonphosphatic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of phosphatic¹

First recorded in 1820–30; phosphate + -ic

Example Sentences

Animals could soak up so much, in fact, that they could fashion thick and durable shells, as hard as the hardest tissue in the human body — the phosphatic enamel of our teeth.

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A 2016 economic impact study prepared for Port Tampa Bay found that the phosphatic fertilizer industry generated $12.2 billion in total economic value to that region alone.

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Photographs showed Kim cutting a large red ribbon to open the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory, with his sister Kim Yo Jong in the background.

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Phosphatic nodules have been excavated from the base of the Chalk Marl at several places along the outcrop; the Marl is worked for cement.

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When the vomited liquid is allowed to stand, a sediment forms in it which is composed almost entirely of epithelial scales, more or less modified in their appearance by the accidental contents of the stomach, and a film covers its surface in which globules of fat and phosphatic crystals may be detected.

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