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Industrially it's made by grinding up phosphate rock and heating it along with coke (the carbon kind, not the soft drink kind) and sand to 1200oC or so to produce phosphorus vapors that can then be condensed into white phosphorus.
Phosphorus is flammable and white phosphorus spontaneously ignites in air. It's also quite toxic; as little as 15 mg has been known to cause death.
The original method refined it from urine, using charcoal to bind the phosphorous and then boiling it and running the gas through water. You can do this on a small scale, though be warned that the phosphorous you get will burst spontaneously into flame on contact with air. This method is not used on industrial scales.
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What are all the elements that make up a phosphorus?
Phosphorus is an element, symbol P. Did you mean phosphorus?
What does oxygen and phosphorus make?
P2o
What chemical does oxygen and phosphorus make?
fire
33P is a radioactive isotope of phosphorus. Can 33P be used to make a radioactive nucleotide?
Yes because it can replace the phosphorus atom in the phosphate group.
What does chemically joining phosphorus and oxygen make?
fire
What are all the elements that make up a phosphorus?
Phosphorus is an element, symbol P. Did you mean phosphorus?
How do you make a phosphorus liquid?
The white phosphorus melt at 44,2 0 0C.
What does oxygen and phosphorus make?
P2o
What is a good slogan for phosphorus?
Phosphorus and sticks of wood are the perfect match!
What is the balanced chemical equation for phosphorus oxide phosphorus and?
You r question does not make sense, as it ends in 'and?'. However, Phosphorus oxide is usually named as 'phosphorus pentoxide. The formula being 'P2O5'. Phosphorus pentoxide often form the dimer 'P4O10',
Does phosphorus make a sound when you hit it?
Yes, but I don't know the exact sound pure phosphorus makes.
Is phosphorus used to make fertilizer?
Yes
What make up phosphates?
phosphorus and oxygen
What elements make toys glow?
phosphorus
What does beryllium and phosphorus make?
Beryllium Phosphate
What chemical does oxygen and phosphorus make?
fire
How is phosphorus available to the plant?
Phosphorus is taken in as phosphates and is needed to make chemicals for the transfer of energy in photosysthesis and respiration. Without phosphorus a plant shows poor growth.
