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Pentasodium triphosphate is made by heating (and dehydrating) a 1:2 mixture of sodium dihydrogen phosphate and disodium hydrogen phosphate. The mixture is made by adding an appropriate quantity of sodium hydroxide to phosphoric acid.

W. Büchner, R. Schliebs, G. Winter, K.H. Büchel, Industrial Inorganic Chemistry, VCH, 1989

5
Na+
  +  
2
[HPO4]2–
  +  
[H2PO4]–
         
  +  
2
H2O
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Dehydration
Industrial Process: Inorganic

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