Rising demand in agriculture, growing adoption of lithium-ion battery technology, and increasing applications in industrial chemicals drive steady market. The elemental phosphorus (P4) and derivatives ...

Scientists have discovered phosphorus on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn, NASA said Wednesday. The element, which is essential to planetary habitability, had never before been detected in ...

Phosphorus is essential; human beings can't live without it. Phosphorus is dangerous; it has been a key element in incendiary bombs. Thanks to heavy use of phosphorus in fertilizers, many experts ...

Phosphorus is both integral to our agricultural system, and wreaking havoc on waterways. Read Dan Egan’s new book with SciFri this April. The Devil’s Element brings together a range of topics, ...

Rising demand in agriculture, growing adoption of lithium-ion battery technology, and increasing applications in industrial chemicals drive steady market. The elemental phosphorus (P4) and derivatives ...

Disrupting Earth’s chemical cycles brings trouble. But planet-warming carbon dioxide isn’t the only element whose cycle we’ve turned wonky—we’ve got a phosphorus problem too. And it’s a big one, ...

Chemists have long been enamored with nitrogen fixation, the process nature employs to help plants capture atmospheric nitrogen and convert it to ammonia for use as a nutrient. Besides the famous ...

Italmatch Chemicals, a specialty chemical group focused on the production and marketing of performance additives for plastics, as well as those for water and process treatment, oil and gas, and ...

Virus-mediated lysis of host cells results in the generation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) via a process that is known as ...

In this winding debut history, science writer Lohmann traces how phosphorus has shaped the natural world and human history. Describing the phosphorus cycle, he explains that weathering redistributes ...

Balancing phosphorus levels in crop lands is a key factor that is often overlooked in discussions of global food security, according to a new article. Balancing phosphorus levels in crop lands is a ...