Phosphorus used in a sentence

Phosphorus in a sentence as a noun

Do you have any reasoning to support your claims that we'll run out of phosphorus or energy?

This doesn't mean we run out of phosphorus, it just means that the market price will rise until other extraction methods provide enough supply. It will not have to rise far, given just how common the element is.

Your local watershed doesn't really care that the excess phosphorus that's being dumped into it comes from certified organic bone meal.

Iraq War 2003 [1] where the US Army used White phosphorus on unarmed civilians to "regain" the control of the city after a few tens of insurgents killed 4 US contractors. ***** please.

I feel like sandwiching some phosphorus into that and hitting it with some high voltage AC current, just for kicks. The electroluminiscence should make for an interesting light display.

I imagine nitrogen, phosphorus and aluminum are the easiest to find generally throughout the world. China appears to control 90% of antimony [2] and its price seems to have gone up 700% over the last decade.

Its capacity to gather phosphorus rendered the environment barren for everything else. Within hours, the rice paddy and those around it took on the appearance of a ripe duck pond covered with lurid iridescent green scum.

What is an iPhone if not a combination of silicon, carbon, oxygen, aluminium, potassium, copper, boron, phosphorus, nitrogen etc. ?

A robot or an AI will be vastly more cost effective than paying a slow moving, slow thinking organic entity that requires money in order to purchase proteins, carbohydrates and increasingly rare elements like phosphorus. Just as for millennia, smart people have been attempting to fly, so too have smart people been attempting to eliminate humans from production.

Also I wouldn't use the Israeli in Gaza as a paragon of virtue: I don't think that California would start using phosphorus bombs against Arizonan civilians, since it's explicitly forbidden by the Geneva convention. But since the US have actually used phosphorus against civilians in Fallujah in 2004, maybe you're right, they would be less civil.

Quote Examples using Phosphorus

>And since DNAs backbone is loaded with phosphorus, its reasonable to think that the plant would have evolved to have less DNA, so it can make do with less of this element. >But not so. Instead, the team thinks that the answer probably involves recombination[... ] Perhaps recombination is exceptionally sloppy in the bladderwort, leading to a natural tendency to delete its DNA. Why is this presented as an alternative? Surely it makes sense that the low-phosphorus environment would lead the bladderwort to evolve a "sloppy recombination mechanism", that would shorten its DNA without damaging its function.

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