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. |