Question 4: In appearance, properties, and structure, it resembles ________, being black and flaky, a conductor of electricity, and has puckered sheets of linked atoms.
Question 5: Diphosphine (P2H4 or H2P-PH2) is an analogue of ________ (N2H4) that is a colourless liquid that spontaneously ignites in air and can disproportionate into phosphine and complex hydrides.
Question 6: Although the term "phosphorescence", meaning glow after illumination, derives from phosphorus, glow of phosphorus originates from oxidation of the white (but not red) phosphorus and should be called ________.
Question 8: In one process, ________ phosphate, which is derived from phosphate rock, is heated in an electric or fuel-fired furnace in the presence of carbon and silica.