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    Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15. Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus...
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    friction generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. Wooden matches are packaged in matchboxes, and paper matches are partially cut into rows...
    38 KB (4,559 words) - 12:12, 6 July 2024
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    white phosphorus matches in 1892 which was doubled in 1905. By 1906, the production of white phosphorus matches had been reduced to one match in every fifty...
    13 KB (1,544 words) - 09:02, 5 August 2024
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    friction matches that did not pose the health hazards of white phosphorus. This yellow solid is one of two commercially produced phosphorus sulfides....
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  • Thumbnail for Allotropes of phosphorus
    allotropes are also known. Gaseous phosphorus exists as diphosphorus and atomic phosphorus. White phosphorus, yellow phosphorus or simply tetraphosphorus (P4)...
    33 KB (3,535 words) - 09:20, 13 July 2024
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    White phosphorus munitions are weapons that use one of the common allotropes of the chemical element phosphorus. White phosphorus is used in smoke, illumination...
    59 KB (6,040 words) - 23:17, 23 July 2024
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    of phosphorus, because phosphorus and phosphorus-based materials do not enter the gaseous phase readily, as the main source of gaseous phosphorus, phosphine...
    40 KB (4,498 words) - 02:13, 22 July 2024
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    Phosphorus pentoxide is a chemical compound with molecular formula P4O10 (with its common name derived from its empirical formula, P2O5). This white crystalline...
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    Phosphorus pentachloride is the chemical compound with the formula PCl5. It is one of the most important phosphorus chlorides/oxychlorides, others being...
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    of "strike anywhere matches". There are several other phosphorus sulfides in addition to P4S3 and P4S10. Six of these phosphorus sulfides exist as isomers:...
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    Phosphorus trichloride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula PCl3. A colorless liquid when pure, it is an important industrial chemical, being...
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    Charles Sauria (category Short description matches Wikidata)
    – 22 August 1895) was a French chemist credited for inventing phosphorus-based matches in 1830–1831. Several events are believed to have led Sauria to...
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    including children, who dipped white phosphorus-based matches at home. Several children had died from eating these matches. The Bryant & May factory received...
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    sticks that can be considered the real precursor of today's match. Small phosphorus matches were first marketed in Germany in 1832, but they were extremely...
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  • Thumbnail for John Walker (inventor)
    1830 invented the first phosphorus-based match by replacing the antimony sulfide in Walker's matches with white phosphorus, matches were first patented in...
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  • Phosphorus trifluoride (formula PF3), is a colorless and odorless gas. It is highly toxic and reacts slowly with water. Its main use is as a ligand in...
    9 KB (714 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2024
  • In chemistry, there are three series of binary phosphorus halides, containing phosphorus in the oxidation states +5, +3 and +2. All compounds have been...
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    Phosphorus pentafluoride, PF5, is a phosphorus halide. It is a colourless, toxic gas that fumes in air. Phosphorus pentafluoride was first prepared in...
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    Phosphine (redirect from Phosphorus hydride)
    heating white phosphorus in an aqueous solution of potash (potassium carbonate). Perhaps because of its strong association with elemental phosphorus, phosphine...
    39 KB (3,616 words) - 15:30, 18 July 2024
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    Phosphorus trioxide is the chemical compound with the molecular formula P4O6. Although the molecular formula suggests the name tetraphosphorus hexoxide...
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