Definition of "phosphates" [phosphates]

• Plural form of phosphate. (noun)

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• "He also demanded hearings to find out why Chicago’s 1971 ban on household detergents containing phosphates is not being enforced."
• "The phosphates are a group of minerals of one or more metallic elements chemically associated with the phosphate compound PO4."
• "Quacks have done an immense amount of harm by frightening patients into the belief that they were suffering from discharges of this kind when there was, in fact, nothing more than a copious deposit of phosphates, which is not at all infrequent in nervous people, especially after eating."