phosphine

See also: Phosphine

English

Chemical structure of phosphine, PH₃

Etymology

From phosph- +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɒsfiːn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: phosphene

Noun

phosphine (countable and uncountable, plural phosphines)

1. (inorganic chemistry, uncountable) A toxic gas, chemical formula PH₃.

   Synonym: hydride of phosphorus

2. (organic chemistry, countable) Any alkyl or aryl derivative of this compound, PR₃ (where at least one R is not H),
3. (dyeing) Chrysaniline, often in the form of a salt.

Usage notes

• Any specific substituted phosphine is named as a phosphane, e.g. methylphosphane.

Synonyms

• phosphane
• phosphorus hydride
• phosphureted hydrogen

Derived terms

• acylphosphine
• alkylphosphine
• allenylphosphine
• allylphosphine
• aminodiphosphine
• aminophosphine
• arylphosphine
• bisphosphine
• carbamoylphosphine
• cyclohexyldiphenylphosphine
• dichlorophenylphosphine
• dicyclohexylphenylphosphine
• diethyl phosphine
• diphosphine
• ferrocenylphosphine
• halophosphine
• iminophosphine
• monoethyl phosphine
• organophosphine
• oxaphosphine
• phosphine imide
• phosphine imide
• phosphine oxide
• phosphine oxide
• phosphine sulfide
• phosphine sulphide
• phosphinic
• phosphinic acid
• primary phosphine
• secondary phosphine
• silylphosphine
• tertiary phosphine
• trialkylphosphine
• triarylphosphine
• tributylphosphine
• tricyclohexylphosphine
• triethyl phosphine
• trimethylphosphine
• trioctylphosphine
• trivinylphosphine
• vinylphosphine

 

Related terms

• phosphazene, phosphazine

Translations

PH₃

• Catalan: fosfina f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 磷化氫／磷化氢 (leon⁴ faa³ hing¹)

  Mandarin: 磷化氫／磷化氢 (zh) (línhuàqīng)

• Finnish: fosfiini
• German: Phosphin n
• Greek: φωσφίνη (el) f (fosfíni)
• Hungarian: foszfin
• Italian: fosfina f
• Japanese: ホスフィン (hosufin)
• Kazakh: фосфин (fosfin)
• Korean: 포스핀 (poseupin)

PR₃

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 膦 (leon⁶)

  Mandarin: 膦 (zh) (lìn)

• Japanese: ホスフィン (hosufin)
• Korean: 포스핀 (poseupin)

Further reading

• phosphine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia