phosphorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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I need scarcely remind my readers again that, under these circumstances, I have taken proper precautions to avoid being imposed upon by phosphorized oil or other means.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
The bands separate and strings and lines of the phosphorized spirits train away without direction to the choruses that attract them, although only a sort of subdued and confused murmur reaches them from the halls.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.
Phosphorus in meat occurs as phosphoprotein in the nucleoproteins of cell nuclei, and lecithoproteins in the brain and to a less extent in other tissues as phosphorized fats.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
Egg yolk is the most abundant source of phosphorized fat in food material, but milk likewise furnishes an appreciable amount.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
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