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phosphates
n. (plural of phosphate English)
Usage examples of "phosphates".
Recently, their numbers had been dwindlingthey were victims of overfishing and pollution from PCBs, pesticides and phosphates from agricultural runoff and many of the survivors were manifesting tumors, ulcers and even bizarre genetic mutations.
Urine contains about 4 per cent solids - urea, common salt, phosphates, sulphates, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, uric acid, ammonia etc.
The prime pollutants are phosphates, and the chief culprit is Big Sugar.
Big Sugar gets all the water it wants for practically nothing, dirties it with tons of phosphates, then spits it back at nature.
I supposed to promise them, a merry life digging phosphates in the Aozou mines in the Sahara, with Security flogging them on?