tetrasodium pyrophosphate

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssodium pyrophosphate

   Broaderbuilder

Questions about tetrasodium pyrophosphate

What does tetrasodium pyrophosphate mean?

tetrasodium pyrophosphate means "a sodium salt of pyrophosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents".

What is another word for tetrasodium pyrophosphate?

Close synonyms include sodium pyrophosphate. 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 tetrasodium pyrophosphate a common word?

tetrasodium pyrophosphate 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.