Talk:Phosphorus

WikiProject Elements

Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by maveric149. Elementbox converted 10:31, 23 Jun 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 04:14, 16 Jun 2005).

Information Sources

Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Phosphorus. Additional text was taken directly from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (via dict.org) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org).

Data for the table was obtained from the sources listed on the main page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but was reformatted and converted into SI units.

Phosphor redirect

Is there some special reason for redirecting phosphor to this page? If not I will change it, as in modern usage phosphors have little to do with phosphorus --Roger 12:40 UTC, 1 Sep 2003

Discovery of Phosphorus

Phosphorus was actualy made in Roman times when early scientist had the theory that something with the same color as another they could turn it into the other. so scientist colected urine from military barracs and other places in order to "create" gold.

Abundance

I've tagged this with the "contradicts another article". This article claims ~1% content in the earth's crust, Abundance of elements in Earth's crust claims 1/10th that which intuitively seems low. This article has no source, but the other only has the CRC handbook generically applied to the entire column of the table containing that info and could have easily been transcribed with the wrong number of decimal places. Or vice versa. They should be brought into line either way. A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 10:34, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Was this written by martians?

"A wide range of organophosphorus compounds are used for their toxicity as pesticides (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.) and weaponised as nerve agents against enemy humans." Also, not like it's a surefire guarantee but all but 4 countries on the planet are either signatories of or agreed to the chemical weapons convention, and the last time someone used an organophosphate as a weapon they got half their country set on fire by joint forces from multiple signatories pretty quick. North Korea is probably stupid enough and has a chemical weapons program, but all that will last as long as it takes for them to attack someone and the US to assassinate all the leadership with knife missiles launched from predator drones in retaliation, then call it a "mild argument" so that fits into the rules of war somehow. A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 11:11, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, quite a few martian editors contribute. Their crap needs to be replaced or at least removed. The more that reliable, referenced facts seep in, the less these martians will be inclined to contribute. At least that is the plan. Just be grateful that we are dealing with science and not with Taylor Swift or pubs in Brighton.--Smokefoot (talk) 20:47, 13 October 2024 (UTC)