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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phosphorus is a critical raw material that should be recycled more efficiently. There is also a need for more environmentally friendly production methods for organic phosphorus compounds. A recently ...

SYSTEMATIC investigations, mainly during the past decade, have led to the discovery of a number of biologically highly valuable substances in the jelly of the honeybee. Comparatively little is known ...

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 ...

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

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 ...