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Boron phosphide, BP
Boron phosphide, BP, is prepared by heating boron phospho-iodide to 450°-500° in a current of hydrogen. The iodine can also be removed from the phospho-iodide by heating with mercury or silver. Another method of preparation consists in heating the compound BBr3.PH3 to 300°, when hydrogen bromide is eliminated.
Boron phosphide is a light, amorphous, maroon-coloured powder, insoluble in the usual inorganic and organic solvents. It burns in chlorine in the cold and in bromine when warmed; at 200° it burns brilliantly in oxygen, and it also reacts with heated sulphur. It is not affected by iodine, nitrogen, phosphorus, or arsenic even at a red heat. It is attacked by numerous metals at a red heat, and is easily oxidised by concentrated nitric acid or fused alkali nitrates. When heated in hydrogen at 1000°, a brown boron subphosphide, B5P3, is produced which is much less reactive than the phosphide. |
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