Cerium phosphide is an

inorganic compound An inorganic compound is typically a chemical compound that lacks carbon–hydrogen bonds⁠that is, a compound that is not an organic compound. The study of inorganic compounds is a subfield of chemistry known as ''inorganic chemistry''. Inorgan ...

with the chemical formula CeP. It is one of the

phosphide In chemistry, a phosphide is a compound containing the ion or its equivalent. Many different phosphides are known, with widely differing structures. Most commonly encountered on the binary phosphides, i.e. those materials consisting only of pho ...

s of

cerium Cerium is a chemical element; it has Chemical symbol, symbol Ce and atomic number 58. It is a hardness, soft, ductile, and silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air. Cerium is the second element in the lanthanide series, and while it ...

. It can be obtained by reacting

cerium dioxide Cerium(IV) oxide, also known as ceric oxide, ceric dioxide, ceria, cerium oxide or cerium dioxide, is an oxide of the rare-earth metal cerium. It is a pale yellow-white powder with the chemical formula CeO2. It is an important commercial produc ...

and

phosphine Phosphine (IUPAC name: phosphane) is a colorless, flammable, highly toxic compound with the chemical formula , classed as a pnictogen hydride. Pure phosphine is odorless, but technical grade samples have a highly unpleasant odor like rotting ...

at 1300 °C in the presence of hydrogen,Vasil'eva, I. G.; Mironov, K. E.; Mironov, Yu. I. Properties of cerium monophosphide. ''Redkozemel. Metal. Ikh Soedin., Mater. Vses. Simp.'', 1970: 160-165. . or by reacting

sodium phosphide Sodium phosphide is the inorganic compound with the formula Na3P. It is a black solid. It is often described as Na+ salt of the P3− anion. Na3P is a source of the highly reactive phosphide anion. It should not be confused with sodium phosphate, ...

and cerium chloride at 700~800 °C. It will be oxidized to monoclinic CePO₄ in air above 900 °C. It reacts with

iodine Iodine is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53. The heaviest of the stable halogens, it exists at standard conditions as a semi-lustrous, non-metallic solid that melts to form a deep violet liquid at , and boils to a vi ...

in a

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The Atom, atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen Tetrahedral molecular geometry, tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tet ...

ampoule to obtain CeSiP₃.Mironov, K. E.; Abdullin, R. V. Formation and chemical transfer of cerium silicon phosphide (CeSiP3). ''Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii'', 1980. 25 (8): 2062-2066.

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* {{Phosphides Cerium(III) compounds Phosphides