A Less Hazardous Means to Create Phosphorus Compounds: Scientists have identified a precursor that helps convert phosphorus into a range of useful compounds, all the while bypassing the need for ...

When people think about agricultural pollution, they often picture what is easy to see: fertilizer spreaders crossing fields or muddy runoff after a heavy storm. However, a much more significant ...

Phosphorus is found in everything from matches to fertilizer—and may be critical to starting the spark of life and keeping it going. Scientists studying the origin of life in the universe often focus ...

Plants need phosphorus, an essential nutrient, to grow. This nutrient is present in fertilizers and applied to crops to increase their yields. One downside of too much phosphorus in this agricultural ...

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 ...

ONE of the most fascinating problems of organic chemistry consists in the attempt to prepare compounds the molecules of which are devoid of planes of symmetry, and are therefore capable (like a screw ...

It is well known that phosphorus is essential to life’s existence. For this reason, there has been a continued interest in ...

All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms could not exist. Little was known about a key element in the building blocks, ...

Dublin, Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Yellow Phosphorus & Derivatives Market by Derivative (Thermal Phosphoric Acid, Phosphorus Trichloride, Phosphorous Pentoxide, Red Phosphorus), End Use ...

We tend to think of life as being about carbon and oxygen—but that's missing a crucial workhorse of our bodies and every other living thing: phosphorus. The element is a key ingredient of DNA, its ...

Rates of photosynthesis (net CO2 uptake in saturating light) of leaves sampled from phosphorus-deficient subterranean clover plants (Trifolium subterraneum L. cv. Mt. Barker) were lower than those of ...