phosphide

plural phosphides

1. countableuncountablechemistryAny binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3.

   On the other hand, too much phosphide may render the iron brittle.

   1974, Sulzer Technical Review, volume 56/57, page 13

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   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.

   1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696

   These two metals were then melted in magnesia crucibles and cooled slowly, in order to find how much phosphide would separate during solidification.

   1901, J. E. Stead, “Iron and Phosphorus”, in Albert Sauveur, editor, The Metallographist, volume IV, Boston, Mass.: Boston Testing Laboratories, page 225

   Colani (1907b) prepared uranium arsenide and antimonide by methods similar to the one he used for the preparation of phosphide.

   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

   So you took the bottle of phosphide and you poured a good dose into your sister’s cup.

   1959, Georges Simenon, translated by Robert Eglesfield, Maigret Has Scruples, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, Inc., page 126