Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it. Phosphorus is the structural backbone of the phosphate nucleotides in DNA and ...

CRYSTALS of molybdenum trioxide, prepared by subliming MoO 3 powder, obtained from the pure ammonium compound, have been examined with X-rays. The crystals were small, thin, lustrous plates ...