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trimethylphosphine

trimethylphosphine noun: the organophosphorus compound P(CH₃)₃, a common ligand in coordination chemistry.

Noun

trimethylphosphine (countable and uncountable, plural trimethylphosphines)

  1. The organophosphorus compound P(CH₃)₃, a common ligand in coordination chemistry.
    • In this work, phosphorous-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes have been synthesized by the thermal decomposition of trimethylphosphine using a high-vacuum chemical vapor deposition method.2016, Georgina Ruiz-Soria, Toma Susi, Markus Sauer, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Thomas Pichler, Paola Ayala, “On the bonding environment of phosphorus in purified doped single-walled carbon nanotubes”, in...

Forms of trimethylphosphine

pluraltrimethylphosphines

Origin of trimethylphosphine

From tri- + methyl- + phosphine.

Questions about trimethylphosphine

What does trimethylphosphine mean?
Trimethylphosphine means the organophosphorus compound P(CH₃)₃, a common ligand in coordination chemistry.
What part of speech is trimethylphosphine?
Trimethylphosphine is a noun.
What is the plural of trimethylphosphine?
The plural of trimethylphosphine is trimethylphosphines.

Words near trimethylphosphine in the dictionary

  1. trimethylphenol
  2. trimethylphenols
  3. trimethylphenyl
  4. trimethylphenylammonium
  5. trimethylphenyls
  6. trimethylphosphine
  7. trimethylphosphines
  8. trimethylpsoralen
  9. trimethylpyridine
  10. trimethylpyridines
  11. trimethylsilane

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