Definitions
carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid
Word origin
From French phosphate. By surface analysis, phosphoric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Used in a sentence
“Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.”
“Bony fishes were judicious in their use of phosphate as a building material: their teeth, a few parts of the skeleton, and that was it.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Soda-fountain drink”9 letters
02“Mineral compound”9 letters
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