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Where do you find phosphorus?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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You can get phosphorous tablets in drugstores, and you can buy it to enhance the root growth of plants in certain places for plants, like Valley View farms. There was also a "Phosphorous Soda" that was taken off the market a few years ago due to the fact that it hurt your liver.

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Due to its reactivity with air and many other oxygen-containing substances,phosphorus is not found free in nature but it is widely distributed in many different minerals.

Phosphate rock, which is partially made of apatite (an impure tri-calcium phosphate mineral), is an important commercial source of this element. About 50 per cent of the global phosphorus reserves are in the Arab nations. Large deposits of apatite are located in China, Russia, Morocco, Florida, Idaho, Tennessee, Utah, and elsewhere. Albright and Wilson in the United Kingdom and their Niagara falls plant, for instance, were using phosphate rock in the 1890s and 1900s from Connetable, Tennessee and Florida; by 1950 they were using phosphate rock mainly from Tennessee and North Africa. In the early 1990s Albright and Wilson's purified wet phosphoric acidbusiness was being affected by phosphate rock sales by China and the entry of their long standing Moroccan phosphate suppliers into the purified wet phosphoric acid business.

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phosphorus was first isolated in 1669 by Hennig Brand, a German physician and alchemist.

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The person who discovered phosphorus is Henning Brand (Germany), in 1669.

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The name for phosphorus is derived from a Greek word phosphoros, and its meaning is "bringer of light." Phosphorous was discovered in 1669.

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sea minerals are an important source of phosphorus

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phosphorus got its name from a latin word.

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The source of phosphorus is phosphate minerals as apatite (found in USA, Russia, China, Morocco, Jordan, Vietnam, etc.).

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Phosphorus deposits exist in Russia, Vietnam, USA, China, Jordan, Mauretania, Morocco etc.

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