The present writer has briefly discussed the history of this law, in NATURE, vol. 1. 1894, p. 149. In two unappreciative lines in a footnote to the “Elements of Chemical Philosophy,” published ...

It's happy 350th birthday to the discovery of phosphorus, an element that is essential for life as we know it. ... The theory of phlogiston was not debunked until the 1770s, ...

1803: English chemist-physicist John Dalton starts using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. Dalton, considered the father of modern atomic theory, made a logbook entry that day ...

"Phosphorus is one of the six elements on which biology depends," Jane Greaves, ... The element, atomic number 16, only accounts for about 0.0007 percent of all matter.

Phosphorus enables high-yield agriculture and sustains life. ... Tempe, Ariz. (July 16, 2013) Phosphorus is an element that is as essential to life as the food we eat.