- Ceimic Chemistry
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a compound known in various polymeric forms, 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 and is used chiefly as a drying agent, as a condensing agent in organic synthesis, and in making phosphoric acids and derivatives
8% ar a mhéid tar éis triomaithe ag 100°C ar feadh 5 huaire an chloig i bhfolús os cionn peantocsaíd fhosfair.
Not more than 8.0% after drying at 100°C for 5 hours in vacuo over phosphorus pentoxide.