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Phosphite is a name that has been applied to both PO32- (recent trend) and HPO32- (historically).

Note that the HPO32- is now recommended to be called hydrogen phosphite anion or sometimes the phophonate anion.

HPO32-is different from hydrogen carbonate HCO3- where the H is bonded to O, as it contains a H-P bond and that H does not react with base.

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