How to Use phosphate in a Sentence

phosphate

noun

• In the late 1800s, phosphate mining was the main industry in the area near the springs.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 30 May 2021
• To do that, the child would have to take packets of phosphate three or four times a day.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Still, the team was not sure how Enceladus had gotten such high amounts of phosphates in the first place.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
• One of these is the story of the lithium-iron-phosphate battery.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
• Approval of the study is good news for the phosphate industry, which has a big waste problem.
  — Eric Tegethoff, The New Republic, 18 July 2023
• Picture a ladder that twists like a corkscrew, with the sugar and phosphate acting as the side rails and the base pairs acting as the rungs.
  — Ryan Rossotto, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• But food is so sparse here that oxygen, nitrate, and phosphate were present even in the deepest mud.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 29 July 2020
• On the left, a nickel cobalt manganese battery cell; on the right, a lithium iron phosphate cell.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
• Aqua denies that the phosphate blend caused lead to leach out of the village’s plumbing into the water.
  — NBC News, 18 June 2021
• Best of all, though, might be a lithium iron phosphate that gives you the ability to live off the grid for two peaceful weeks.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2022
• Now, the main limit to crop growth was phosphorus—and as long as the phosphate mines hummed, that was no limit at all.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
• This laundry stick looks like a bar of soap and is free of petroleum, phosphates, parabens, and dyes.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
• The reservoir is a system of lined ponds connected to the former phosphate mine.
  — USA Today, 5 Apr. 2021
• In 2021, a leak was discovered at the Piney Point phosphate plant in west Florida.
  — Eric Tegethoff, The New Republic, 18 July 2023
• There is a new lithium-iron phosphate Standard Pack, that provides a driving range of as much as 270 miles.
  — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 12 June 2024
• It's built to go the distance with a lithium iron phosphate battery and drop-proof construction.
  — Mike Richard and Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health, 10 June 2022
• The strands are made of alternating sugar and phosphate groups.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• The fountain also serves phosphates as well as milkshakes, malts and sundaes.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2024
• The fountain also serves phosphates as well as milkshakes, malts and sundaes.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• The other is a phosphate plant that belches pollution into the sky.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• And its switch to cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate batteries for some of its cars has given it more room to lower prices.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• When plugged into a wall outlet, its lithium iron phosphate battery can reach an 80% charge in less than an hour.
  — Dan Diclerico, goodhousekeeping.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Then there’s the phosphate-free Diva scent of Glamorous Wash, which arrived in my mailbox by surprise.
  — Vogue, 20 Sep. 2021
• The parathyroid gland helps regulate calcium and phosphate, so these need to be checked.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• The bZ3 will be the first time Toyota uses a lithium iron phosphate cathode in its EV batteries.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 25 Oct. 2022
• This spring, more than 200 million gallons of polluted water from an old phosphate plant was dumped in the bay, which could have made this red tide worse.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 26 July 2021
• Cotton lacking the gene pioneered at A&M got crowded out by the weeds in fields where the soil was fertilized with phosphate.
  — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 5 July 2018
• Further, its sales volumes were down 7% and 33% y-o-y in April for the potash and phosphate segments, respectively.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• The leopard spotting may have occurred when chemical reactions with hematite turned the rock from red to white, which can release iron and phosphate and potentially cause the black rings to form.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 July 2024
• Calcium and phosphate in these toothpastes can help strengthen tooth enamel by remineralizing teeth.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024