Phosphorus

News Phosphorus

• Method found for analysing complex, tiny crystals
  

  The atomic structure of solid substances can often be analysed quickly, easily and very precisely using X-rays. However, this requires that crystals of the corresponding substances exist. Chemist Professor Oliver Oeckler from Leipzig University and his team are developing methods to make this possib more

• International research team creates previously unknown nitrogen compounds
  

  Non-metal nitrides are compounds in which nitrogen and non-metallic elements are linked by covalent bonds. Because of their technologically interesting properties, they have increasingly become the focus of materials research. In the journal "Chemistry – A European Journal", an international team wi more

• Arkema divests its phosphorus derivatives business
  

  Arkema announces the proposed divestment of Febex, a company specialized in phosphorus-based chemistry, to Belgian group Prayon. Arkema thus continues its dynamic business portfolio management. Febex is a global player in phosphorus derivatives (high purity phosphoric acid, sodium hypophosphite and more

White papers Phosphorus

• Effluent Phosphate Recovery & Recycling
  

  This report will outline the contours of the phosphorus problem, and some possible solutions. more

Infographics Phosphorus

The Chemistry of Matches

Matches, as it turns out, have been around for a long time. Sulfur-based matches are mentioned as far back as the 1200s in texts of the time, and in the 1600s a process involving drawing sulfur matches through dried phosphorus-soaked paper was devised. However, the friction matches we’re used to hav more

The Chemical Elements of a Smartphone

There are an isolated few graphics online that look at elements involved in the manufacture of a smartphone – for example, this ‘Periodic Table of iPhones’ – but there’s actually remarkably little easily accessible information out there that details the specific compounds used for specific purposes more

Group 5 Elements

The latest of the element infographics looks at the Group 5 elements. There is, once again, an interesting fact that I couldn’t quite fit in, or left out at the expense of others: Bismuth-209 was long thought to have heaviest stable nucleus of any element, until 2003 when it was determined by French more