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Element that glows in the dark
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phosphorus
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms [syn: P , atomic number 15 ] a planet ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"substance or organism that shines of itself," 1640s, from Latin phosphorus "light-bringing," also "the morning star" (a sense attested in English from 1620), from Greek Phosphoros "morning star," literally "torchbearer," from phos "light," contraction ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE white ▪ The white phosphorus matches were dangerous and their manufacture a serious danger to health. ▪ There was a trick to it, which involved artillery and white phosphorus , but the overall effect was spectacular. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chemistry English) a chemical element (''symbol'' P) with an atomic number of 15, that exists in several allotropic forms. 2 (context obsolete English) any substance exhibiting phosphorescence; a phosphor
Usage examples of phosphorus.
Porak, after giving some historical notes, describes a long series of experiments performed on the guinea-pig in order to investigate the passage of arsenic, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, alizarin, atropin, and eserin through the placenta.
You import microbiota, nitrogen fixers, food, phosphorus, metals, power.
Third Scene This gloomy place need not be a mine: it might just as well be a match-factory, with yellow phosphorus, phossy jaw, a large dividend, and plenty of clergymen shareholders.
Linder develops electric current directly from the atomic rays by placing collector electrodes in an evacuated chamber containing the polonium or radioactive phosphorus, etc.
The secretion dissolves bone, and even the enamel of teeth, but this is simply due to the large quantity of acid secreted, owing, apparently, to the desire of the plant for phosphorus.
Jumped out of a burning tank with his badly burned brother, Unteroffizier Paul Haller, in his arms, himself to die of phosphorus burns.
Sulphur, phosphorus, and arsenic are converted into sulphuric, phosphoric, and arsenic acids respectively, when boiled with the strong acid.
There are nitrogen and carbon in those masses of sea vegetation, and there are phosphorus and calcium in the bathybic deposit.
You can think of berlinite as derived from quartz by replacing silicon atoms alternately by aluminum and phosphorus atoms.
The action of bromine is sometimes accelerated by the use of compounds which behave catalytically, the more important of these substances being iodine, iron, ferric chloride, ferric bromide, aluminium bromide and phosphorus.
They would be trying to breathe things like acetone, while getting along without things like phosphorus and smothering in things like earwax and belly-button lint.
Besides that, the ore also contained other valuable metals like cobalt and the platinum-group metals, as well as nonmetals like sulfur, arsenic, selenium, germanium, phosphorus, carbon.
By using a tracer method involving radio-actively labelled phosphorus, McIlwain and his group had shown that the ATP in its turn was used to synthesize a special class of phosphorus-containing proteins, phosphoproteins, present in very large amounts in the brain.
The Rebels had the search-and-destroy tactics down to perfection, using incendiary charges their lab people had devised that threw white phosphorus and napalm upon exploding.
London and covered it in phosphorus to make it glow in the dark, and it was this dog which scared Sir Charles Baskerville to death.