Definition of Phosphides

1. Noun. (plural of phosphide) ¹

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Definition of Phosphides

1. phosphide [n] - See also: phosphide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phosphides

phosphatomes
phosphatrane
phosphaturia
phosphaturias
phosphazene
phosphazenes
phosphazine
phosphazines
phosphene
phosphenes
phosphepane
phosphepine
phosphetane
phosphid
phosphide
phosphides (current term)
phosphids
phosphin
phosphinane
phosphinate
phosphinates
phosphindole
phosphindoles
phosphindolizine
phosphindolizines
phosphine
phosphine imide
phosphine oxide
phosphine oxides
phosphine sulfide

Literary usage of Phosphides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"(572) phosphides.—The phosphides of the metals are of comparatively small importance: they are never met with in the native state. The phosphides of the ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1898)
"Freese acknowledges this in an extended work on phosphides of iron (Pag. ... Some experimenters have tried in vain to prepare phosphides by heating an ..."

3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1860)
"Titanium, molybdenum, and vanadium absorb nitrogen • at a red heat. ic) The phosphides of the metals are of comparatively ..."

4. The Electric Furnace by Henri Moissan (1904)
"METALLIC phosphides The compounds consisting of phosphorus and a metal were hitherto not well characterized and of doubtful composition. ..."

5. Iron and Steel Magazine by Albert Sauveur (1900)
"phosphides and Sulphides under the Microscope.— In a recent lecture before the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, at Middlesborough, England, ..."

6. A System of Inorganic Chemistry by William Ramsay (1891)
"Sodium and potassium phosphides are produced by direct union, ... Calcium and barium phosphides have been produced mixed with pyro- phosphates§ by the ..."

7. A Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by Augustus Beauchamp Northcote, Arthur Herbert Church (1858)
"SALTS OF PHOSPHORUS, OR phosphides. These are more numerous than the analogous ... The phosphides may be produced similarly with the nitrides ; but some are ..."

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