What does phosphorous acid mean?

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

What is another word for phosphorous acid?

Close synonyms include hypophosphorous acid, orthophosphorous 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 phosphorous acid a common word?

phosphorous 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.

Phosphorous acid — meaning and 2 synonyms

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a clear or yellow monobasic acid (H3PO2)
Synonymshypophosphorous acid orthophosphorous acid
Broaderoxyacid

Questions about phosphorous acid

What does phosphorous acid mean?: phosphorous acid means "a clear or yellow monobasic acid (H3PO2)".
What is another word for phosphorous acid?: Close synonyms include hypophosphorous acid, orthophosphorous 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 phosphorous acid a common word?

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