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What is a phosphide?

What is a phosphide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) Any binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3.
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In developing countries, poisons consumed are commonly toxins such as organophosphorus compounds and aluminium phosphide, and thus mortality is high.
Phosphine, generated from aluminum phosphide and water, is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a fishy or garlic-like odor.
The author has included aluminium phosphide and pyrethroid poisonings in the appendix of the text in this edition.
If sulphur is heated in a stream of phosphine, hydric sulphide and sulphur phosphide are the products.
Use zinc phosphide during fair weather to protect the toxicant from moisture.
Some 50 packages of the highly toxic fumigant magnesium phosphide washed up in April after a spill near the Poor Knights Islands.

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