noun
- a salt or ester of metaphosphoric acid, containing phosphorus in a chain or ring structure
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- Sodium metaphosphate is used as a food additive and preservative.
- The chemist synthesized a new metaphosphate compound in the laboratory.
- Metaphosphates are important in industrial water treatment processes.
- The structure of metaphosphate differs from that of orthophosphate.
- Calcium metaphosphate can be found in certain fertilizer formulations.
- The metaphosphate chain contains multiple phosphorus atoms linked together.