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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One key ingredient for life thought to be delivered to Earth by meteorites may have been homemade after all. That means “emergence of life is not necessarily connected to meteorite impacts,” says ...

Cytoplasmic phosphomonoesters and inorganic phosphate, as well as vacuolar inorganic phosphate and polyphosphates, gave rise to the major peaks in 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of the ...

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 ...