Stibine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A colorless flammable poisonous gas, SbH3, often used as a fumigant.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Stibnite.
  • n. Antimony hydride, SbH3; a poisonous gas, sometimes used as a fumigant; any organic derivative of this compound
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Antimoniureted hydrogen (SbH3), a colorless gas of disagreeable odor, poisonous if respired, and burning in the air with a bluish flame: it deposits metallic antimony in spots on a piece of cold porcelain pressed down upon the flame. The gas also deposits the metal by passage through a glass tube heated at one point.
  • n. A general term for any compound of antimony with an electropositive or alkyl radical, as triethyl-stibine, Sb(C2H5)3.
    • Word Usage
    "The gas stibine (SbH_ {3}) is formed under conditions which are very similar to those which produce arsine, and it closely resembles the latter compound, though it is still less stable."
     
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