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Shootout Tournament - Poker (gambling) and Phosphorus (medicine)


Shootout Tournament - Poker (gambling)


1) A special tournament in which a number of tables of players each play down to one winner, and then the winners of each table compete in the playoff. Often all players who make it to the final table receive a prize, usually ranging from an amount equal to the buy-in for the first busted out to the main prize, which often is 40 to 50% of the total prize pool. 2) A tournament in which one player ends up with all the money, one that is played till only one player remains.

Phosphorus (medicine)


phosphorus


Origin: L, the morning star, Gr, lit, light bringer; light + to bring.

1. The morning star; Phosphor.

2. <chemistry> A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many Other purposes. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P. Atomic weight 31.0.

3. <chemistry> Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.

<medicine> Bologna phosphorus, phosphorescent substances which shine in the dark after exposure to the sunlight or Other intense light.

Source: Websters Dictionary