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hypophosphate Definition

hypo·phos·phate (hī′pō fäsfāt′, -pə-)

noun

  1. a salt of hypophosphoric acid containing any of several negative radicals, monovalent HPO, divalent HPO, trivalent HPO, or tetravalent PO
  2. an uncharged ester of this acid