Phosphate rock, or “phos-rock,” is ore that contains phosphorus. It is located at various depths, and extraction typically requires large dragline buckets, which scoop up the material for ...

Phosphorus is the structural backbone of the phosphate nucleotides in DNA and RNA, Natalie Hinkel, a planetary astrophysicist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, told me via email.

Aggressive intravenous phosphate repletion (0.08–0.16 mmol/kg over 2–6 h) is generally only necessary when hypophosphatemia is severe Untreated severe hypophosphatemia (serum phosphorus <1.0 ...