Phosphides are mainly binary compounds of phosphorus and more electroposititive chemical elements, therefore they can be considered, even if only formally, as salts of phosphine, РН 3. Phosphides cannot be found in nature but for some very rare exceptions. They find application as semiconductors (1) and rodenticides (chemicals, used to kill rodentsrats, mice, beavers, squirrels, etc.) (2,3). Their significance for clinical toxicology is connected to rodenticide poisonings.
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