Do not attempt to perform this demonstration. White phosphorous dissolved in a solvent is dripped onto a piece of paper. When the solvent evaporates, the phosphorous combines with oxygen in an ...

The original plan of the research groups of Dr. habil. Christian Hering-Junghans and Prof. Torsten Beweries at the Rostock ...

Although metal ions are central to all of biochemistry, a group of elements clustered in the early part of the periodic table—carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus—are highly represented in ...

They use heat and flames resulting from a chemical reaction. In the case of white phosphorus, that reaction occurs when the substance is exposed to oxygen. Incendiary weapons are not explicitly banned ...