Crossword-Solution: PHOSPHIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phosphide | n. | A binary compound of phosphorus. |
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| any compound of phosphorus with another element, esp a more electropositive element | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with PHOSPHIDE (5)
From that mortar Armand has shot half a dozen bombs of phosphide of calcium which are hurled far into the darkness.
The calcium phosphide, in its turn, is produced in the electric furnace by the action of the coke upon the phosphorus in phosphatic lime--all commercially procurable lime and some varieties of coke (or charcoal) containing phosphates to a larger or smaller extent.
Lewes, indeed, has found that a sample of carbide containing 1 per cent of calcium phosphide gave (probably by local decomposition--the bulk of the phosphide suffering attack first) a spontaneously inflammable gas; but when examining specimens of commercial carbide the highest amount of phosphine he discovered in the acetylene was 2.3 per cent, and this gas was not capable of self-inflammation.
Sometimes a yellowish red precipitate is produced in solutions of copper salts containing free acid, but the deposit is not copper acetylide, and is more likely to be, at least in part, a copper phosphide--especially if the gas is crude.
The author refers to the customary view that black phosphorus is merely a mixture of the ordinary phosphorus with traces of a metallic phosphide, and contends that this explanation is not in all cases admissible.