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A colorless gas with a strong fishy smell
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phosphine
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n. 1 (context chemistry uncountable English) a toxic gas; hydride of phosphorus, PH 3 2 (context chemistry countable English) any alkyl or aryl derivative of this compound, PR 3 (where at least one R is not H) 3 (cx dyeing English) chrysaniline, often in ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Phosphine \Phos"phine\, n. (Chem.) A colorless gas, PH3 , analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide , and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen . Note: It is the most important compound of phosphorus ...
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n. a colorless gas with a strong fishy smell; used as a pesticide
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Phosphine ( IUPAC name: phosphane ) is the compound with the chemical formula PH. It is a colorless, flammable, toxic gas and pnictogen hydride . Pure phosphine is odorless, but technical grade samples have a highly unpleasant odor like garlic or rotting ...
Usage examples of phosphine.
The dragons, named for the mythical Terran beast they resembled, had two valuable characteristics: They could instantaneously travel from one place to another, and after chewing a phosphine, bearing rock, they could emit a flaming gas.
Had learned the many tricks of dodging Thread, gauging the varieties of Fall, of conserving the strength of beast and rider, of turning the mind from the horrors of a full scoring or a phosphine emission too close.
Another wingmate had swooped to catch the rider, but the green dragon, his left wing crisped, his body scorched, had died of shock and phosphine poisoning.
Jaxom saw Lytol close his, and saw the fact of Lytol's terrible loss engraved on the man's gray face, as much of a torture now as the day his Larth had died of phosphine burns.
As far as I knew, all of the gas giants that humanity had encountered were made up of unfriendly gases -- methane, ammonia, helium, carbon monoxide, phosphine, hydrogen cyanide, other nasties, with trace amounts of water.
Knowing as he did now the scientific explanation for the process by which dragons digested the rock in their second stomach and belched the phosphine gas forth in flame did not in the least destroy his reverence for dragonkind.