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WHEREIN R" IS AN ARYL GROUP OF FROM 6 TO 16 CARBON ATOMS, A HALOGEN SUBSTITUTED ARYL GROUP OF FROM 1 TO 16 CARBON ATOMS, AN ARYL SUBSTITUTED ARYL GROUP CONTAINING FROM 6 TO 16 CARBON ATOMS OR AN ALKYL GROUP CONTAINING 1 TO 12 CARBON ATOMS, R'''''' IS HYDROGEN OR AN R" GROUP AND FROM 0.01 TO 0.5 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF MONOCYCLIC, MONOHYDRIC ALKYL-SUBSTITUTED PHENOLS. R"-P(=O)(-H)-O-R"'' WHEREIN R IS A PHENYL GROUP OR A SUBSTITUTED PHENYL GROUP, R'' IS A PHENYLENE GROUP OR SUBSTITUTED PHENYLENE GROUP, IN WHICH THE SUBSTITUENTS ON SAID PHENYL AND PHENYLENE GROUPS ARE HALOGEN, ALKYL OR ALKOXY CONTAINING FROM 1 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, N IS AN INTEGER OF FROM 1 TO 6, Y IS SULFUR OR OXYGEN PROVIDED THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THE GROUPS REPRESENTED BY Y IS SULFUR, AND MIXTURES OF SUCH THIOETHERS AND FROM ABOUT 0.05 TO ABOUT 1.0 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF AN ORGANIC PHOSPHONIC ACID OF THE FORMULA R-Y(R''-Y)N-R 1. A LUBRICANT COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A MAJOR AMOUNT OF A POLYPHENYL THIOETHER HAVING THE FORMULA |