tripolyphosphate
noun
tripolyphosphate is a noun meaning “The anion P₃O₁₀⁵⁻, or any salt containing this anion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-P-O-L-Y-P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tripolyphosphate is tripolyphosphates.
What does tripolyphosphate mean?
noun
- 1
The anion P₃O₁₀⁵⁻, or any salt containing this anion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tripolyphosphate
- tripolyphosphates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tripolyphosphate?
Tripolyphosphate appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does tripolyphosphate come from?
From tri- + polyphosphate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).