phosphide

1. (chemistry) Any binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3.Examples: "The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined."; "These two metals were then melted in magnesia crucibles and cooled slowly, in order to find how much phosphide would separate during solidification."; "Colani (1907b) prepared uranium arsenide and antimonide by methods similar to the one he used for the preparation of phosphide."countableuncountable