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Peas also respond well to the addition of phosphorus so digging in bonemeal or rock phosphate will help with pea production.
The chemical composition of eggshell includes calcium and phosphorus, in similar proportions to bone, or to the rock called dolomite.
The vitamin-D-deficient calves had increased basal metabolic rates and decreased blood calcium and phosphorus.
Animals can obtain their phosphorus directly form the plants if the animal is a herbivore.
Potassium also reacts readily with all acids and with many nonmetals, such as sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, phosphorus, and nitrogen.
Boron, silicon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur are among the most prevalent of the elements other than carbon that form covalent compounds.
Salts of triazinic compounds with phosphorus oxyacids, and use of said compounds in self-extinguishing polymeric compositions.
For example, diatoms generally have a lower phosphorus requirement than chlorophytes.
In either case, organic acids like citrate and malate are synthesized to enable the plant to survive under phosphorus deficiency.
The principal chemicals are ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, hydriodic acid, and red phosphorus.
In this way, by adding phosphorus to the reaction mixture, hydrogen iodide is recycled and the reducing efficiency of hydriodic acid is enhanced.
A white phosphorus bomb fired from a helicopter or mortar distributes the substance in a wide area, much like a cluster bomb.
Britain used mustard gas and white phosphorus incendiaries in the First World War, along with Germany and France.
Beneath the surface lie layers rich in arsenic, phosphorus, copper, lead, antimony, even gold.
The most important of these are antimony, phosphorus, tin, and arsenic, with manganese and silicon having a small effect.
This is carried out using an aqueous solution of hydrogen iodide reacting in the presence of red phosphorus.
Those shells contain napalm and leave traces of luminescent phosphorus on the site of detonation.
Another familiar, although much less important, use of phosphorus is the manufacture of wood and paper safety matches.
Nitrogen, more so than phosphorus, is a component of the photosynthetic machinery.
The magic ingredients for protecting against wrinkles appear to be vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and zinc.
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Sulfur occurs in the organic compounds of plants, associated with phosphorus.
A body poisoned by phosphorus does not exhibit a tendency to putrefactive decomposition within the usual period.
It has been recommended to dissolve the phosphorus out from organic matters by carbon disulphide.
The phosphorus combines with the oxygen to form an oxide of phosphorus, known as phosphorus pentoxide.
The safety match, therefore, cannot be lighted unless it is rubbed on the phosphorus on the outside of the box.
When heated with phosphorus pentoxide it yields acetone, water and some pseudo-cumene.
The selenide was collected and dried in an atmosphere of nitrogen, and then in a vacuum, in presence of phosphorus pentoxide.
In any case, Shoemakers statement has no bearing whatever on the pharmacologic action of pure amorphous phosphorus.
No evidence has been produced to show that phosphorus acts as an energizer of oxidation.
Provided free phosphorus has not been detected, it is necessary to search for phosphorous acid.
The lower part of the whole apparatus was inclosed in a thick walled vessel, e, containing a layer of phosphorus pentoxide.
Maleic anhydride is obtained by distilling fumaric acid with phosphorus pentoxide.
The following instances sufficiently establish the aphrodisiacal qualities of phosphorus.
All I have to do is daub a little phosphorus on the dummy and it will be in shape to do the ghost dance.
When heated to 300 C. with hydriodic acid and hydrochloric acid, in the presence of some red phosphorus, it yields benzoic acid.
If Romberg's phosphorus, which is fused CaCl2, is rubbed on the sleeve, it glows with a greenish light.
Such a slag not only corrodes the furnace lining, but also impedes dephosphorization, because it is irretentive of phosphorus.
He forgot, it seems, that phosphorus could not well be seen by candlelight.
By heating with phosphorus pentachloride an alkyl group is eliminated and a chlorcarbonic ester formed.
The high percentage of phosphorus points to nuclein compounds as its probable source.
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