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1875 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 31 361 The shales..are rich in organic remains. These..are all more or less phosphatized.

1885 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 41 80 There this process of phosphatizing the coral has been in operation on a most extensive scale.

1988 Palaeontology 31 1079 Only those organisms with an original skeletal phosphate content..have been phosphatized.

1939 Metal Treatm. 4 172 A modern phosphatising process for sheet steel work comprises the following steps:—1. degrease, 2 phosphatise, 3 chromate rinse, 4 dry off.

1961 Engineering 23 June 855/2 The skin which forms protects it from sprays used to clean and phosphatise the panels.

1900 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 1899–1900 16 385 The ‘rock phosphates’ are phosphatised portions of the underlying Eocene and Miocene limestones... What was the nature of the phosphatising agent?

1939 Automobile Engineer 29 460/3 Specimens having the full treatment of phosphatising and chromate rinse showed markedly superior performance.

1976 J. R. Duncan tr. Bartoň's Protection against Atmospheric Corrosion v. 114 Chemical pre-treatment methods have come into use as an answer to the problem of finding methods for rust stabilization... Phosphatizing is the most frequently used of these methods.

1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler Messel xxiv. 274 On the basis of these results we can establish a provisional model for the phosphatizing and sideritizing processes in Messel as far as the origin of phosphorus and the biogeochemical conditions on the floor of Lake Messel are concerned.