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phosphates
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phosphates Salts of
phosphoric acid; the form in which the element
phosphorus is normally present in foods and body tissues. See also
polyphosphates.
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Fighting phosphates: the link between phosphates and algae blooms in pool water is becoming clearer all the time. Here's what you need to know. (service).
Magazine article from: Pool & Spa News; 4/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...close eye on phosphate levels. The connection between phosphates and algae growth...tri-sodium phosphate. Algae cannot...these combined phosphates as a nutrient...short, all phosphates end up as ortho-phosphate, which feeds...
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 "Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)")
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PHOSPHATE EXPORTS BY JORDAN.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; PHOSPHATE EXPORTS LONG HAVE dominated Jordanian foreign trade. Jordan is very rich in its phosphate deposits. It was reported that the first discovery of phosphate deposits in Jordan took place as early as 1894...
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Phosphates: Performance booster?
Magazine article from: Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...supplement available today, phosphates aren't new. Phosphate salt supplements, such...bones and teeth. Other phosphate salts, such as sodium phosphate, are involved in acid...remainder of the body's phosphates are found in a variety...
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Phosphates market in March.(Inorganics)
Magazine article from: China Chemical Reporter; 4/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...The calcium hydrogen phosphate price is expected to...downstream sectors. Sodium phosphates In March, the prices...dihydrate monosodium phosphate was maintained at RMB4...dodecahydrate disodium hydrogen phosphate was RMB2 300/t...the demand for these phosphates in domestic market...
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 "Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)")
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Phosphate ban may be eased: Detergent makers seek 'a little bit more time'.
Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA); 4/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...switch to largely phosphate-free -- or...detergents. Phosphates, widely used in...detergents. (Phosphates are typically not...committed to meeting a phosphate-free deadline...experiments with non-phosphate detergents in Europe...and 8.7 percent phosphates, she said...
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Phosphates and zeolites reach statemate: I&I remains the prize.(industrial and international detergent niches)
Magazine article from: Chemical Week; 1/24/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...warnings against phosphates, Noe says. A...supported study of phosphate use in Scandinavia...remove and recycle phosphates, use of phosphate-based products...conventional wisdom about phosphates. At the same time, phosphate recycling programs...
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PHOSPHATE MINING ATTRACTIVE TO INVESTORS
Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter; 5/22/1995; 700+ words
; Large-scale phosphate mining seems to have started gaining...Coordinating Board (BKPM) to mine phosphate in, respectively, Sukabumi, West...from the BKPM in 1993- -will open a phosphate-mining field and establish a phosphate...
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This Phosphates Market Review is Now Available.
Business Wire; 11/14/2008; 603 words
; ...markets. It provides region analysis on phosphates production. It features major Phosphates producers, prices, supply and demand...includes a future outlook of the world's Phosphates market. Phosphate rock is the term given to a range of...
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Phosphate Complexation Model and Its Implications for Chemical Phosphorus Removal
Magazine article from: Water Environment Research; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT: A phosphate complexation model is developed, in...mechanistic basis of chemically mediated phosphate removal. The model presented here is...are taken from literature models of phosphate interactions with iron oxides. The...
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Phosphate Resource Partners Limited Partnership Reports 2001 Second Quarter And First Half Results.
PR Newswire; 7/26/2001; 700+ words
; ...nearly $25.0 million from significantly higher idle plant costs and lower phosphate production volumes in IMC Phosphates Company (IMC Phosphates). Diammonium phosphate (DAP) production volumes fell 43 percent in the quarter. All Louisiana...
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SIC 1475 Phosphate Rock
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...heating without melting), or otherwise preparing phosphate rock, including apatite. NAICS Code(s) 212392 (Phosphate Rock Mining) In 2003, nine U.S. firms in four states mined phosphate rock ore, compared to 20 firms in 1997. In 2003...
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phosphate
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sometimes called acid phosphates. The most important inorganic phosphate is calcium phosphate...important inorganic phosphates include ammonium phosphate, important as a...sodium ammonium phosphate. Organic phosphates play an important...
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Phosphates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
PHOSPHATES Export of these...Natural calcium phosphate deposits occur...Sahara. Algeria's phosphate reserves are located...Kouif. Tunisia's phosphates contain 30 percent...quality of Egypt's phosphate is similar to Tunisia...
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phosphates
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
phosphates Phosphate is present in many sedimentary rocks as grains of apatite minerals (calcium phosphate). Rocks that are largely composed of phosphate (phosphorites) are less common but of economic importance...
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pentose phosphate pathway
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
pentose phosphate pathway ( pentose shunt ) A series of biochemical reactions that results in the conversion of glucose 6-phosphate to ribose 5-phosphate and generates NADPH, which provides reducing power for other...
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