These LEDs contain metal phosphides such as those of gallium and indium. In the natural world the elemental form of phosphorus is never encountered. It is only seen as phosphate, and phosphate is ...

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.