Crossword-Solution: PHOSPHOROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phosphorous | a. | Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3. |
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| Chemical element used in safety matches | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
SADORL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with PHOSPHOROUS (5)
She can't bear a light in the room, and it wakes her all up to turn an electric switch, or anything of that kind.” “Why doesn't she have one of those phosphorous things?” questioned Billy.
Sonnenschein refers to a case of an infant of five weeks who died from the effects of one phosphorous match head containing only 1/100 grain of phosphorus.
This affection was first noticed in 1838, soon after the introduction of the manufacture of phosphorous matches.
Straight cliffs sail up and away beyond the hope of the eagles; cliffs so tall that they seem to attract the stars and collect them as sea-crags collect a mere glitter of phosphorous.
The deceptive glow made him loom gigantic and black, and tinged his snowy chest with the phosphorous gleam of a snowfield.
Quotes with PHOSPHOROUS (3)
Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that's left are the archives. Pieces of paper. And the truth is... I worked at an archive myself, I can tell you first hand: paper lies even more than people do.
A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!
He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.