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phosphides

phosphides is the plural 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

Phrases with phosphides

Questions about phosphides

What is phosphides the plural of?
Phosphides is the plural of phosphide.

Words near phosphides in the dictionary

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

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