phosphorus trichloride
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The best method for preparing pure phosphorous acid is by hydrolyzing phosphorus trichloride:
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Day after day they emerged with ton after ton of chemicals--sodium cyanide, sodium fluoride, phosphorus trichloride, isopropyl alcohol, acetonitrile--some benign, but others deadly, and still others that if mixed together might create something deadlier still.
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It can be easily obtained, however, in the form of transparent crystals when phosphorus trichloride is treated with water and the resulting solution is evaporated: PCl3 + 3H2O = H3PO3 + 3HCl.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William
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