What type of atom is phosphate?

Answer 1

#"Phosphate"# is not an atom but an ion radical, i.e. #PO_4^(3-)#

A phosphate is thus the salt of phosphoric acid, #H_3PO_4#. Because phosphates and biphosphates (#HPO_4^(2-)#) are generally insoluble, they are present in a lot of metal ores.

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Answer 2

Ellie Andrews

Phosphate is typically associated with a phosphorus atom.

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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.

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