Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Combined with phosphorus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.), obsolescent Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus.
- adjective (Chem.) See
Phosphine .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete ,(
chemistry )treated , orreacted withphosphorus
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Examples
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Take up a little hydrochloric acid in a pipette and put a few drops of it into a very dilute solution of nitrate of mercury, and you will obtain rings of mercurial chloride that will, in their descent, take on the same whirling motion that characterizes the aureolas of phosphureted hydrogen.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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The property of phosphoric acid of uniting with carburetted hydrogen to form carbonic acid and phosphureted hydrogen certainly is of fundamental importance, as phosphureted hydrogen readily ignites on coming into contact with oxygen.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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A small quantity of phosphureted hydrogen also escapes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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