: a binary compound of phosphorus with a more electropositive element or group
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Hoping to make a metallic glass, which is an alloy of atoms jumbled together without a discrete shape, researchers on Greer’s team placed bits of iron, nickel, and a phosphide compound in a copper dish housed inside a simple electric furnace.
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Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
The outside lab would take a few days to get him the copper phosphide.
—WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
Institute of Photonics/LUH The first section of the chip features an optical amplifier built out of indium phosphide, a material that has already been widely used to create semiconductor lasers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2023
Embedded in that are nanoparticles of a catalyst that the research group has a long history with, tri-molybdenum phosphide (Mo3P).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2023
The grains comprised of aluminum, silver iodine, phosphide, and silicon carbide, as well as a compound of nickel and phosphorus, with very little iron.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 June 2022
That high iron component, plus the presence of nickel and phosphide, also rules out the more common Type II supernova.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 June 2022
Then, in 2018, nickel phosphide, an element that has never been found in any object in our solar system, was found in the stone.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 20 May 2022
NSW Farmers President James Jackson said there needs to be urgent action from the state government, including emergency permission to use the pesticide zinc phosphide and financial assistance through a small grants program.
—NBC News, 26 Mar. 2021
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Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
The outside lab would take a few days to get him the copper phosphide.
—WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
Institute of Photonics/LUH The first section of the chip features an optical amplifier built out of indium phosphide, a material that has already been widely used to create semiconductor lasers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2023
Embedded in that are nanoparticles of a catalyst that the research group has a long history with, tri-molybdenum phosphide (Mo3P).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2023
The grains comprised of aluminum, silver iodine, phosphide, and silicon carbide, as well as a compound of nickel and phosphorus, with very little iron.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 June 2022
That high iron component, plus the presence of nickel and phosphide, also rules out the more common Type II supernova.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 June 2022
Then, in 2018, nickel phosphide, an element that has never been found in any object in our solar system, was found in the stone.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 20 May 2022
NSW Farmers President James Jackson said there needs to be urgent action from the state government, including emergency permission to use the pesticide zinc phosphide and financial assistance through a small grants program.
—NBC News, 26 Mar. 2021
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1849, in the meaning defined above
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phosphide
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phos·phide
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: a binary compound of phosphorus with a more electropositive element or group
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