phosphide
See also: Phosphide
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phosphide (countable and uncountable, plural phosphides)
- (chemistry) Any binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3.
- 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:
- The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
- 1901, J. E. Stead, “Iron and Phosphorus”, in Albert Sauveur, editor, The Metallographist, volume IV, Boston, Mass.: Boston Testing Laboratories, page 225:
- These two metals were then melted in magnesia crucibles and cooled slowly, in order to find how much phosphide would separate during solidification.
- 1951, Joseph J. Katz, Eugene Rabinowitch, The Chemistry of Uranium: The Element, Its Binary and Related Compounds, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., page 241:
- Colani (1907b) prepared uranium arsenide and antimonide by methods similar to the one he used for the preparation of phosphide.
- 1959, Georges Simenon, translated by Robert Eglesfield, Maigret Has Scruples, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, Inc., page 126:
- So you took the bottle of phosphide and you poured a good dose into your sister’s cup.
- 1974, Sulzer Technical Review, volume 56/57, page 13:
- On the other hand, too much phosphide may render the iron brittle.