Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
phosphide .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.), obsolescent A phosphide.
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- noun obsolete ,(
chemistry )phosphide
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Examples
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Formed by uniting solid phos. with inflammables and alkalies -- phosphuret of sulphur extremely inflammable -- phos't lime decomposes water at the common temperature (Henry 1, 321.) 5.
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Is not this effect nearly similar to that produced by the combination of phosphorus and sulphur, or, more properly speaking, the _phosphuret of sulphur_?
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Variant forms include: opake, opaque aëriform, aeriform (with and without dieresis) gasses, gases phosphoret, phosphuret (but always carburet)
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Phosfihuret of nickel may be formed by causing phosphorus in vapour to act on metallic nickel in ignition; the phosphuret is almost black, and has metallic lustre.
Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1 Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy 1812
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