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Tricalcium phosphate (sometimes abbreviated TCP), more commonly known as Calcium phosphate, is a calcium salt of phosphoric acid with the chemical formula Ca 3 (PO 4) 2. It is also known as tribasic calcium phosphate and bone phosphate of lime (BPL). It is a white solid of low solubility.
The term calcium phosphate refers to a family of materials and minerals containing calcium ions (Ca 2+) together with inorganic phosphate anions. Some so-called calcium phosphates contain oxide and hydroxide as well. Calcium phosphates are white solids of nutritional value [2] and are found in many living organisms, e.g., bone mineral and tooth ...
The phosphate ion has a molar mass of 94.97 g/mol, and consists of a central phosphorus atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms in a tetrahedral arrangement. It is the conjugate base of the hydrogen phosphate ion H(PO 4) 2−, which in turn is the conjugate base of the dihydrogen phosphate ion H 2 (PO 4) −
Dicalcium phosphate is the calcium phosphate with the formula CaHPO 4 and its dihydrate. The "di" prefix in the common name arises because the formation of the HPO 4 2– anion involves the removal of two protons from phosphoric acid, H 3 PO 4. It is also known as dibasic calcium phosphate or calcium monohydrogen phosphate.
The dihydrate, sometimes termed CPPD, can be formed by the reaction of pyrophosphoric acid with calcium chloride: [citation needed] CaCl 2 + H 4 P 2 O 7 (aq) → Ca 2 P 2 O 7 ·2 H 2 O + HCl. The anhydrous forms can be prepared by heating dicalcium phosphate: [2] 2 CaHPO 4 → Ca 2 P 2 O 7 + H 2 O
Monocalcium phosphate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(H 2 PO 4) 2 ("AMCP" or "CMP-A" for anhydrous monocalcium phosphate). It is commonly found as the monohydrate ("MCP" or "MCP-M"), Ca(H 2 PO 4) 2 ·H 2 O. Both salts are colourless solids.
As an example of the wide range of solubility of calcium compounds, monocalcium phosphate is very soluble in water, 85% of extracellular calcium is as dicalcium phosphate with a solubility of 2.00 mM, and the hydroxyapatite of bones in an organic matrix is tricalcium phosphate with a solubility of 1000 μM. [59]
It would appear that violet phosphorus is a polymer of high relative molecular mass, which on heating breaks down into P 2 molecules. On cooling, these would normally dimerize to give P 4 molecules (i.e. white phosphorus) but, in a vacuum, they link up again to form the polymeric violet allotrope.