sodium tripolyphosphate

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   a sodium salt of triphosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents

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Questions about sodium tripolyphosphate

What does sodium tripolyphosphate mean?

sodium tripolyphosphate means "a sodium salt of triphosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents".

Is sodium tripolyphosphate a common word?

sodium tripolyphosphate 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.