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hypophosphitenoun
any salt of hypophosphorous acid
Webster Dictionary
Hypophosphitenoun
a salt of hypophosphorous acid
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Hypophosphite
The hypophosphite ion is H2PO2−, hypophosphorous acid minus one hydrogen ion. Hypophosphites are the compounds containing this ion, with phosphorus in oxidation state +1, or similar covalent ones. Two hydrogens are attached directly to the phosphorus atom. The IUPAC name for the same ion is phosphinate. This is virtually not used for hypophosphite ion itself, with both hydrogens remaining, but for substituted ions. For example, "dimethylphosphinate" ion would be (CH3)2PO2−. Hypophosphites can be made by heating white phosphorus in warm aqueous alkali:−− Hypophosphites are reducing agents:−−2−- Hypophosphites are used in electroless nickel plating as the reducing agent to deposit for example Ni metal from Ni salts. The hypophosphite ion is thermodynamically unstable, and disproportionates on heating to phosphine gas and phosphate salts:−2−
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hypophosphite
hī-po-fos′fīt, n. (chem.) a salt obtained by the union of hypophosphorous acid with a salifiable base—also Hypophos′phate.—adjs. Hypophosphor′ic, Hypophos′phorous, containing less oxygen than phosphorous acid contains.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hypophosphite in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hypophosphite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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