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phosphid

phosphid is the archaic form of phosphide.

Meaning of phosphide

Noun

phosphide (countable and uncountable, plural phosphides)

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

Forms of phosphid

pluralphosphids

Questions about phosphid

What is phosphid the archaic form of?
Phosphid is the archaic form of phosphide.

Words near phosphid in the dictionary

  1. phosphepine
  2. phosphepines
  3. phosphepins
  4. phosphetane
  5. phosphetanes
  6. phosphid
  7. phosphide
  8. phosphides
  9. phosphidic
  10. phosphids
  11. phosphin

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