Phosphine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 250 anagrams from letters in phosphine (ehhinopps).
First recorded in 1870-75; phosph- + -ine1
In the preparation of phosphine, why is coal gas passed into the flask?
If sulphur is heated in a stream of phosphine, hydric sulphide and sulphur phosphide are the products.
As already stated, the highest proportion of phosphine yet found in acetylene is 2.3 per cent.
For the detection of phosphine, Berg's solution may be used.
The difficulty with this explanation is that phosphine is not known as a decomposition product of organized matter.
If it is to be stored it must be carefully purified from phosphine, which is apt to cause sudden decomposition.
These escape into the air and the spontaneous combustion of the phosphine ignites the marsh gas.
According to Bullier, however, acetylene must contain 80 per cent of phosphine to render it spontaneously inflammable.
phosphine is a gas of unpleasant odor and is exceedingly poisonous.
A method frequently employed for the determination of phosphine in acetylene is one devised by Lunge and Cedercreutz.
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