Wiktionary
n. (context inorganic compound English) The calcium salt or phosphoric acid, Ca3(PO4)2, or of several related acids; it is the main mineral of bone
WordNet
n. a phosphate of calcium; a main constituent of animal bones
Wikipedia
Calcium phosphate is the name given to a family of minerals containing calcium ions (Ca) together with orthophosphates (PO), metaphosphates or pyrophosphates (PO) and occasionally hydrogen or hydroxide ions.
Calcium phosphate is the principal form of calcium found in bovine milk and blood. Seventy percent of bone consists of hydroxyapatite, a calcium phosphate mineral (known as bone mineral). Tooth enamel is composed of almost ninety percent hydroxyapatite.
Usage examples of "calcium phosphate".
A shell of mineral calcium phosphate gave him an operating life of nearly two hours.
The soft parts of a dead organism are replaced by calcium phosphate.
The green plants grown in a ship's air-conditioner enable the stores officer to get around this limitation to some extent, as the growing plants will cycle the same raw materials-air, carbon dioxide, and water-over and over again with only the addition of quite small quantities of such salts as potassium nitrate, iron sulphate, and calcium phosphate.
The green plants grown in a ship's air-conditioner enable the stores officer to get around this limitation to some extent, as the growing plants will cycle the same raw materialsair, carbon dioxide, and waterover and over again with only the addition of quite small quantities of such salts as potassium nitrate, iron sulphate, and calcium phosphate.
There seemed little purpose in this until Peace made the connection with a genetic disease she'd read about, now absent from the species, that caused mitochondria to accumulate calcium phosphate.