Because it is very unstable. It spontaneously combusts when exposed to the air.
phosphorous
red phosphorous
Red phosphorous
The red sea is a red-ish color because of the cyanobacteria inside of the water. In the sea, cyanobacteria lives. Cyanobacteria are bacterium that live inside of water.
Phophorus can appear white, red, black, yellow, or colorless.
Phosphorous can be : - colorless, waxy white, yellow, scarlet, red, violet, or black
like a lot of water
Phosphorus is an element. Phosphorus has many allotropes the most important ones are white and red .
Phosphorus is an element that has a red and white form. The red form is known as red phosphorus, while the white form is known as white phosphorus.
red becuz i learned that in school last week
Early matchstick makers used to use white phosphorous, which was explosive and dangerous. Modern matches use a mixture containing red phosphorous instead, which burns more slowly and much cleaner.Strike-anywhere matches use phosphorus sesquisulfide, mixed with other minerals (such as potassium chlorate) so that it's still reasonably safe: it requires a vigorous rubbing motion to ignite, so it won't just ignite from rubbing against other match heads while sitting in the box.
Red blood cells do contain some salts and other ions inside the cell. This means that if it is placed in water (assuming that it is deionized and has no solvent in it) the cell will be hypotonic because the concentration inside the cell will be higher than it is outside the cell.