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phosphinine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phos-phi-nine
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms and a phosphorus atom; especially the simplest one, C₅H₅P.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

phosphinines (plural)

Synonyms

phosphabenzene phosphorine

Questions

What does phosphinine mean?
Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms and a phosphorus atom; especially the simplest one, C₅H₅P.

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