pentoxyde de phosphore

Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1987

  Définition

  A compound known in various polymeric forms (P₂O₅)x that is obtained usually by burning phosphorus in an excess of dry air and occurs as a white powder that reacts vigorously and sometimes explosively with water to form phosphoric acids irritating to the skin and mucous membranes, and is used chiefly as a drying agent, as a condensing agent in organic synthesis, and in making phosphoric acids and derivatives.

  Termes :

  1. phosphorus pentoxide
  2. phosphoric anhydride