Phosphate

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Contents 1 Used for 2 Broader Terms 3 Narrower Terms 4 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

Used for

acylphosphate

Broader Terms

phosphorus compound

Narrower Terms

alkylphosphate, calcium phosphate, phosphoric ester, phosphorylcholine, polyphosphate, pyrophosphate

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• project underground home | drillbits & tailings main page VITAL STATISTICS: PhosphateWhere Phosphate is found: Deposits of phosphate rock occur widely in the Earth's crust, but high grade reserves, good enough for commercial exploitation, are limited.
• As phosphate mining moves south from the Bone Valley mining core in Polk County, the land has much more dolomite (magnesium), which causes problems when the phosphate is processed into the phosphoric acid used in fertilizers.
• The phosphate is used as a fertilizer around the world and the majority of it has been exported to Australia.
• The reason lies partly within the insolubility of aluminum and calcium phosphates, but in any case in the oceans phosphate is quickly used up and falls into the deep as organic debris.
• YOUNG noticed, that the degradation of glucose stops if inorganic phosphate is not present in sufficient amounts.

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