phosphatic
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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.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
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.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022
Conodonts are tooth-like phosphatic structures of an eel-like multi-celled organism that had no other preservable hard parts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Upon death, the phosphatic hard parts were scattered into the rest of the marine sediments.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The phosphatic deposit has doubtless been produced by the long-continued action of a thick bed of sea-fowl dung, which converted the carbonate of the underlying limestone into phosphate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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