orthophosphorous acid

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   a clear or yellow monobasic acid (H3PO2)

   Synonymshypophosphorous acidphosphorous acid

   Broaderoxyacid

Questions about orthophosphorous acid

What does orthophosphorous acid mean?

orthophosphorous acid means "a clear or yellow monobasic acid (H3PO2)".

What is another word for orthophosphorous acid?

Close synonyms include hypophosphorous acid, phosphorous acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orthophosphorous acid a common word?

orthophosphorous acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.