How to Use phosphine in a Sentence

phosphine

noun

• That’s something that the team has not yet done with phosphine.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2020
• The signal for phosphine is a radio wave with a wavelength of 1.123 mm.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
• Seager worked on a team that explored whether phosphine on Venus could be a sign of life.
  — WIRED, 11 Sep. 2022
• Greaves and her team tried to figure out where all that phosphine is coming from.
  — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 14 Sep. 2020
• On Earth, there are only two ways phosphine can be formed, study authors said.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2020
• Sure enough, that phosphine fingerprint showed up again in the new data.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2020
• On Venus, however, there isn't enough heat or pressure for phosphine to form this way.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2020
• Now, a rare molecule known as phosphine has been observed in Venus’s clouds.
  — National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2020
• But Venus' clouds are very acidic, which should quickly destroy phosphine.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• The claim of phosphine detection earlier this year has helped put Venus in the spotlight.
  — Adam Mann, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
• And on Earth, that gas, known as phosphine, is produced by microorganisms.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2020
• And phosphine absorbs at a specific wavelength in the area.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2020
• Another gas at the top of the list is phosphine, a phosphorous atom bound to three hydrogens.
  — David Grinspoon, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2020
• But the scientists weren't able to determine how the phosphine was produced.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• The team detected phosphine in Venus’ clouds at a concentration of 20 parts per billion, the authors write in the study.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
• Now Greaves, et al., have reported the detection of phosphine on the closest planet in the universe to ours.
  — David Grinspoon, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2020
• This turned heads because, on Earth, the minuscule amounts of phosphine around have only two sources: chemists and microbes.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2020
• In it, Truong and Lunine paint a picture of how phosphine might make it into Venus’ atmosphere.
  — Katrina Miller, Wired, 14 July 2021
• This is where the telescopes detected the signature of phosphine.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2020
• Some researchers said their own analyses turned up empty for phosphine.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 18 July 2021
• The discovery of phosphine on Venus could mean that there are tiny, floating lifeforms on the second-closest planet to our sun.
  — ExpressNews.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• Not long after the announcement of the phosphine discovery, Way gave a talk at a conference about Venus.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
• As scientists look for signs of life in the outer solar system, the debate over phosphine on Venus is still running hot.
  — NBC News, 13 July 2021
• The goal was to spot an uncommon biosignature — phosphine.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2021
• In September, a group of researchers discovered a rare molecule, phosphine, in the clouds of Venus.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2021
• Last year, scientists claimed to have found traces of the chemical phosphine—an indicator of life—in the planet's thick, acidic clouds.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
• Put simply, phosphine shouldn’t be in the Venusian atmosphere.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2020
• Sousa-Silva has devoted much of her research to phosphine.
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2019
• Venusian phosphine must be produced by some unknown process.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
• Last fall, researchers said the presence of phosphine in the planet's atmosphere could indicate life.
  — Katrina Miller, Wired, 14 July 2021

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024