Science / Biology / Phosphate Group: A chemical group composed of a central phosphorous bonded to three or four oxygens. The net charge on the group is negative. MORE
Entertainment / Photography / Sodium Hexametaphosphate: Water softener. MORE
Health / Dentistry / Tricalcium Phosphate: An inorganic, particular or solid form of relatively biodegradable ceramic, which is used as a scaffold for bone regeneration. It can act as a matrix for new bone growth. MORE
Science / Biology / Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP): Lower energy form of ATP, having two (instead of the three in ATP) phosphhate groups attached to the adenine base and ribose sugar. MORE
Business / Agriculture / Organophosphates: Insecticides that contain phosphorus, carbon, and hydrogen. They are cholinesterase inhibitors: some are highly acutely toxic, but they usually are not persistent in the environment. Parathion is an e MORE
Science / Biology / Nicotine Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate (NADP): A substance to which electrons are transferred from photosystem I during photosynthesis; the addition of the electrons reduces NADP, which acquires a hydrogen ion to form NADPH, which is a storage for MORE