Phosphorus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHOSPHORUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a chemical element
• the chemical element of atomic number 15, a poisonous, combustible non-metal which exists in two common allotropic forms, white phosphorus, a yellowish waxy solid which ignites spontaneously in air and glows in the dark, and red phosphorus, a less reactive form used in making matches.
• The morning star; Phosphor.
• A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many other purposes. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P. Atomic weight 31.0.
• Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.
• a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
• a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a phosphorescent substance or body; one that shines or glows in the dark

Words related to PHOSPHORUS

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Words that contain PHOSPHORUS

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How to use PHOSPHORUS in a sentence

• Anderson, that job looks almost hopeless, in the light of this phosphorus trick.
• I think I may say he wants nothing but a blue ribbon and a star to make him shine, the very phosphorus of our hemisphere.
• Suddenly the car gave a lurch and jolted the bottle of phosphorus off its shelf.
• The sceptical shepherd said that the collie had eaten some phosphorus which had been spread for the rats, but Mary never gave this prosaic explanation.
• The burning material is ordinarily set on fire by matches, thin strips of wood tipped with sulphur or phosphorus, or both.
• The phosphorus in burning unites with the oxygen of the air and hence the gas that remains in the jar is chiefly nitrogen.
• Phosphorus is obtained from bone ash and from phosphate rock which is widely distributed over the surface of the earth.
• When common phosphorus, in the dangerous and easily ignited form, is heated in a closed vessel to about 250 deg.
• If the rocket hits the balloon these hooks catch in the envelope and hold it there, while the phosphorus bursts into a flame which it is impossible to extinguish.
• These are the fruit and vegetable acids and inorganic salts, especially lime, phosphorus, and iron.
• Do you know what phosphorus is? It is a substance which will take fire of itself if not kept under water.
• Having seen the sun, I love a flicker of phosphorus on a sulphur match.
• The melted iron contains carbon, sulphur and phosphorus, and to get rid of them, especially the sulphur and phosphorus, is the object of all this heat and toil.
• For it is the sulphur and phosphorus that make the iron brittle.
• Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish because the phosphorus in it makes brains.

Similar words containing PHOSPHORU without suffix s

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