Nomenclature
CAS number: 1305-99-3
Photophor.
Ca
3P
2; mol wt 182.18.
Ca 66.00%, P 34.00%.
Description and references
Prepn: Ehrlich in Handbook of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry vol.
1, G. Brauer, Ed. (Academic Press, New York, 2nd ed., 1963)
p 943.
Properties
Red-brown cryst powder or gray lumps. Dec by
moist air or water, evolving spontaneously-flammable phosphine. d 2.51; mp ≈1600°. Dangerous when wet. Keep tightly closed. Poisonous.Use
For signal fires; in purification of Cu and Cu alloys;
as rodenticide.